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It shapes the world view of Egyptians, making ancient Egypt one of the safest and richest agricultural areas in the world.
What is the Nile?
a large structure built especially in ancient Egypt that usually has a square base and four triangular sides meeting at a point and that contains tombs.
What is a pyramid?
ancient Egyptian rulers
What is a pharaoh?
a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion with the wings of a falcon.
What is Sphinx?
A person who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artefacts and other physical remains.
What is an archaeologist?
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It is a powerful group or family that maintains its ruler position for many years.
What is a dynasty?
people in ancient Egypt (usually men) who learned to read and write and recorded all the information that took place in ancient Egypt.
What is a scribe?
An ancient Egypt process to preserve a dead body for thousands of years; the drying out of a body rubbed with old and spices and wrapped in cloth.
What is mummification?
a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface.
What is papyrus?
city and capital of ancient Egypt after the unification of lower and upper Egypt.
What is Memphis?
a character of the ancient Egyptian writing system.
What is hieroglyph?
This group of people were mainly in the middle class of Ancient Egypt. They were skilled workers, like carpenters, sculptors, painters or metal-workers.
What is an artisan/a craftsman?
a form of water management, a productive adaptation of the natural rise and fall of the river.
What is basin irrigation?
Everlasting, eternal life; ancient Egyptians mummified the dead due to the belief it would ensure everlasting life.
What is immortality?
This is a period of time in Ancient Egypt when rulers formed a central government in which they had supreme power. During this period, pyramid building came to its peak, giving this period its common nickname Age of the Pyramids.
What is the Old Kingdom?
It was a type of loincloth similar to a skirt. It was a kilt-like garment worn in ancient Egypt. It was made of cloth and was worn around the waist, typically extending to above the knees.
What is a shendyt?
While they were essential to providing food for all of Egypt, they often got little pay and did not own their land but worked on it for someone else.
the extent to which authority and decision making lie at the top of a hierarchy. The government of the Old Kingdom is often thought to have exhibited strong tendencies towards this.
What is centralisation?
What is the missing word? (Use the appropriate form)
Sometime around 2686 BCE, Upper Egypt came north and invaded Lower Egypt, _________ the two kingdoms under a single ruler who took the title of pharaoh and wore a double crown. Most accounts attribute this moment to King Menes or King Narmer.
unifying
It is one of the two main regions of ancient Egypt. It is in the north and contains the Nile Delta.
What is lower Egypt?
Being a specified year of a monarch's reign calculated from the date of accession.
What is regnal year?
the pharaoh's right-hand-man, who stood second to the Egyptian king, or pharaoh, and was in charge of administration, security, judgment and the safety of the pharaoh and the empire.
What is a vizier?
Where is the second largest pyramid located?
Where is Giza?
Where does the Nile empty into?
Where is the Mediterranean Sea?