Geography
What Continent is Egypt part of?
What is Africa
Who was the first Pharaoh?
Who is Menes
Why did the Egyptians mummify people?
They needed their body in the afterlife
Who was able to write in ancient Egypt?
Who were scribes?
This is the God of the afterlife?
Who is Osirs
What is the name of the river that flows through Egypt? What direction does is flow? Where does it empty?
What is the Nile, South to North and the Mediterranean Sea
Who was the last Pharaoh?
Who is Cleopatra VII
What was the purpose of the pyramids?
What is to bury pharaohs
What was most writing about in ancient Egypt?
Trading, religion, government and everyday life
She was Osirs's wife
Who was Isis
What is the triangular shaped area of fertile land at the mouth of the river called?
What is the Nile Delta
Who was the first female pharaoh?
Who was Hatshepsut
What is the purpose of temples
What is to worship gods
What did they write on?
What is papyrus
What God did all pharaoh's think they were related to?
Who is Raor Re
What was most of the land in Egypt like?
What is barren, sandy and unliveable
He was the most powerful Pharaoh?
Ramses II
What are the two places most pharaohs are buried?
What are pyramids and the Valley of Kings
What did they write with
Stylus
This man uncovered King Tut's money
Who was Howard Carter
What was the economy in ancient Egypt?
What is farming?
He was the most hated Pharaoh?
Who was Akhenaten
What were ancient Egyptian people buried with and why?
All of their possessions because they wanted to bring them to the afterlife with them
How were archaeologists able to decipher the ancient Egyptian language?
The Rosetta Stone
Why was Howard Carter's discovery important?
Because King Tut's tomb was completely untouched