Egypt Geography
What is the main river in egypt?
What is The Nile River
Who is the most Famous egyptian pharaoh
Who is King Tut
What are the famous pyramids called?
What are The Great Pyramids of Giza
What is the name of the process Egyptians used for embalming, or treating the dead body?
What is Mummification
What was the plant that they made into paper?
What is Papyrus
What direction does the Nile River flow?
South to North
Who was the wife of Pharaoh Thutmose, who was a important female pharaoh?
Who was Hatshepsut
What material was used for the pyramids
limestone
What were the jars called that the Egyptians stored organs of dead bodies in?
What are Canopic Jars
What was the Egyptian writing called?
what are Hieroglyphics
What was the annual flooding of the Nile River called?
The Inundation
Who was the famous female pharaoh
Who was Cleopatra
Who is buried in the first pyramid of Giza
who is King Khufu
true or false
Sometimes Egyptians buried Canopic Jars with them?
What were the people called that wrote down history?
Scribe
How was farming possible in Egypt, since it was a dessert?
What is
Fertile soil that resulted from the inundation
Who was the first pharaoh of Egypt?
Who is Narmer
Who is buried in the second Pyramid of Giza?
Who is Khafre
What did the Egyptians store in canopic jars?
What are organs
true or false
Most of the Egyptian people were taught to read and write.
False
Which body of water iss north of Africa and supported trade between Egypt and other civilizations?
The Mediterranean
What egyptian pharoh came up with the laws and punishments engraved in stone?
Who is Hammurabi
Who is buried in the third Pyramid of Giza
Who is Menkaure
What are the 6 steps of mummification?
What are
1. Purifying the body
2. Removing the brain
3. Removal of organs
4. Drying out the body
5. Stuffing the body
6. Wrapping the body
7. optional: decoration of the body
Who was the famous scribe who also architected the first pyramid?
Imhotep