Vocabulary
Geography
Egypt
Pharaohs
Miscellaneous
100

A god/goddess or king/queen that rules Egypt.

What is a pharaoh?

100
The river that flows through Egypt and Nubia.
What is the Nile?
100
True or False, Egyptians were monotheists.
False (they were polytheists).
100

How were the Pharaohs looked at as

What are Gods

100

The homes were built from what?

mud bricks

200

A person who does not have a permanent home. (EX: modern day homeless person)

What is a nomad?

200
Ancient Egypt is located in the continent of.

What is Northeast Africa?

200

What are the 3 seasons of the Nile

Inundation, Emergence, drought

200

What king united the lower and upper Egypt

King Menes

200

what is The belief in many gods.

Polytheistic

300

The Egyptians created this paper-like material out of reeds from the Nile River. Used to write hieroglyphics.

What is papyrus?

300

The Nile River flowed which direction?

South to North

300

Name 3 Egyptian inventions.

What are pyramids, 365 day calendar, reed boats, and papyrus?

300

What is the youngest Pharaoh that ruled Ancient Egypt

King Tut

300

What did the Gods look like according the Ancient Egyptians?

Part animal, part human

400
Egyptians wrote in _____________ while Sumerians wrote in ______________.
What are hieroglyphics and cuneiform?
400

Ancient Egypt was surrounded by what natural barriers.

What is the dessert, mountains, and Mediterranean Sea?

400

Egyptians did this to their pharaoh's bodies after they died

What are mummify / the process of mummification

400

The Pharaoh that expanded trade?

Queen Hatshepsut

400

The Old Kingdom is the Age of what

The age of Pyramids

500

The form of picture/symbol writing

What is hieroglyphics?

500

What are 2 uses for the Nile River

Drinking, Agriculture, Transportation, Bathing

500

The Rosetta Stone had 3 languages

What is Greek, hieroglyphics, aramaic?

500

What are 2 ways that Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt are alike?

religion, farming and trading

500

What is the God of Sun

Ra