Geography/Food
The longest river in the world.
What is The Nile River?
The social class that most Egyptians belonged to.
What are Farmers?
Advised the Pharaoh in matters of war and national security.
Who is the top military commander or general of the armies?
The object a persons heart is weighed against on a scale to tell if they lived a good life.
What is a feather?
The symbols used in ancient Egyptian writing.
What are hieroglyphs?
This food was in surplus in Egypt. Used to make bread, porridge and beer.
What is grain?
The social class that kept the economy flowing, connected Egypt to the outside world and who could become rich.
What are Merchants? What are Artisans? will be accepted as they produced the goods the Merchants sell.
Oversees the wealth of Egypt and collects taxes.
Who is the chief treasurer?
This color represented fertility and birth in art.
What is blue?
Made from cedar trunks, this piece of technology was used to haul and slide bricks from The Nile River to the sites of pyramid construction.
What is the sled?
Thought of as a form of technology, this system was used to supply water to crops and land using canals or channels.
What is irrigation?
This social class helped defend and help expand the empire.
What are Soldiers?
Served as a kind of judge for the pharaoh. Expected to be fair and impartial.
What is the vizier?
Sculptures that are directly carved into the walls of a tombs or temples?
What are relief sculptures?
This is the element what the strongest metal tools in Egypt were made of.
What is copper?
A source of recreation and fun as well as protection from the desert and other nearby civilizations.
What is The Nile River?
The only people trained to read or write. Required years of schooling and could never be forced into labor.
What are scribes?
The method used to preserve bodies from decay so a persons spirit can return to their body after death.
What is embalming? What is mummification? will be accepted.
This is the most important figure in the artwork.
What is the largest in the artwork?
In the shape of a bow, this tool moves back and forth to create a very distinct back and forth line. Can also be used to create a fire.
What is a bow drill?
A species of aquatic flowering plant that was made into paper as well as baskets and nets used for fishing.
What is papyrus?
Believed to be gods.
What are Pharaohs?
This is the special salt used in the embalming process that was applied to the organs and body and dried them out.
What is natron?
4,500 hundred year old sculpture with the body of a lion and the head of a human.
What is the Sphinx?
One of the most iconic accomplishments from Egyptians that it is still unknown as to how it was accomplished.
What are the pyramids?