Ancient Egypt Places
A large structure built in Egypt during the Old Kingdom
What is a pyramid?
Records kept to document something
What are annals?
Most useful river in Egypt
What is the Nile?
A god
What is a deity?
Harvest barley and wheat
What is a farmer?
These buildings were made out of mud bricks
What are ancient Egyptian homes?
A shard of limestone or pottery used much in the way we use notepaper
What is an ostraca?
Seeds were removed, and the core of the plant was placed in water for a week or more. Then they beat and separated it into parts and spun into linen cloth
What is Flax?
The supreme ruler of ancient Egypt
What is a pharaoh?
Time of harvest when the Nile goes down and just before the floods
What is Shemu?
Egypt's land is hot and dry and consists of mostly this type of landscape
What is a dessert?
A large underground vault for burying the dead
What is a tomb?
A stone used for making sickles and weapons
Flint
There were three classes of people in Ancient Egypt
What are Royalty?
What are Free Citizens?
What are Slaves?
Egyptians played board games. One game that has 30 squares and resembles a game we play today called Backgammon.
What is Senet?
A tall, four-sided monument usually made of sandstone, tapering to a pyramid-like top
What is a obelisk?
An ancient Egyptian burial coffin
What is a sarcophagus?
The main metal used in Egypt
Copper
This class of people were in charge of things like, looking after charcoal fires, grinding the wheat, and carrying baskets of fruits and vegetables
What are servants (slaves)?
The ancient Egypt civilization lasted a very long time.
What is 3,000 years?
An intricate, maze-like structure of interconnecting passageways.
What is a labyrinth?
An oval or oblong figure enclosing the hieroglyph names of royalty or gods
What is a cartouche (karr-toosh)?
A sacred holy place
What is a sanctum?
Egyptians thought of this person as a god on Earth
What is a pharaoh?
Ancient Egyptians were among the first people to develop a system of communication.
What is writing?