Geography
The name of the river that Egyptians settled around.
What is the Nile River?
The ruler or king of Ancient Egypt.
Who is the Pharaoh?
The process of treating a body to keep it from decaying.
What is embalming/mummification?
The person at the top of Ancient Egypt's social hierarchy.
Who is the pharaoh?
What are hieroglyphics?
The direction that the Nile River flowed in.
What is in south to north?
The pharaoh was considered the son of this Ancient Egyptian god.
Who was Ra?
One of the most important writings of ancient Egypt; contained prayers and spells to prepare for the afterlife.
What is The Book of the Dead?
These people made up the largest social class in ancient Egypt.
Who were the farmers, unskilled workers, and enslaved people (aka the lower class)?
A line of rulers from one family.
What is a dynasty?
The sea east of the Eastern Desert in Ancient Egypt.
What is the Red Sea?
The two types of responsibilities of the pharaoh.
What are political and religious responsibilities?
The tomb built for the pharaoh Khufu; the tallest man-made structure on Earth until 1887.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
This group of people consisted of priests, generals and nobles and lived in elegant homes on the Nile River.
Who were the upper class?
A reed plant that grew wild along the Nile; the Egyptians had many uses for it including making it into early paper.
What is papyrus?
The name Ancient Egyptians called their land, meaning "black land."
What is Kemet?
Who were bureaucrats?
Special jars that stored the lungs, stomach, intestines, and liver of a person during death.
What are canopic jars?
THe class was made up of people who owned businesses and held skilled jobs.
Who were the middle class?
The type of government where a deity is a supreme leader.
What is a theocracy?
The 3 Geographical Defenses of Ancient Egypt
What are Cataracts, Deserts, and Deltas?
The capital of Egypt established after Upper and Lower Egypt were united for the first time.
What is Memphis?
The judgement in the underworld that determined if a person went to the Afterlife.
What is the Weighing of the Heart?
What did farmers do for work when the Nile River flooded?
What is helping build the pyramids?
A bucket attached to a long pole used to transfer river water to storage basins.
What is a shadoof?