Egyptian Fun Facts
A burial tomb for the Pharaoh
What is a pyramid?
This is the ranking of social class in Egyptian society.
What is a hierarchy?
He weighed the heart to see if it was a light as an ostrich's feather.
Who is Anubis?
He started the Middle Kingdom.
Who was Mentuhotep?
These were made to provide a body for the spirit after death.
What are mummies?
The person at the top of the hierarchy
Who were the pharaohs?
He made the sun rise everyday.
Who is Re?
He had the largest pyramid built by slaves.
Who was Khufu?
Egyptians praised this river every year so there could be an agricultural surplus.
What is the Nile?
The very bottom of the social hierarchy
Who were the slaves and unskilled workers?
It contained 200 spells to help a person get to the afterlife.
What is the Book of the Dead?
She was the first female pharaoh to increase trade and make Egypt economically wealthy.
Who was Hatshepsut?
This served as a coffin for a pharaoh.
What was a sarcophagus?
The name of the people just below the Pharaoh in the hierarchy.
Who were the priests and nobles?
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
He changed the burial place of Pharaohs from beneath mud brick buildings to pyramids.
Who was Djoser?