Terms
Picture symbols used for writing
Hieroglyphics
Who was the first person to unite Ancient Egypt (upper & Lower) was?
Menes (Narmer)
Pharaohs are believed to be reincarnations of him?
Horus
Who ruled ancient Egypt?
What is a pharaoh
King Menes began this Kingdom of Egypt
Old Kingdom
Family members who rule for several years?
Dynasty
Greatest female Pharaoh of Egypt
Hatshepsut
The sun God
What is Amun-Ra
These people were the people who wrote hieroglyphics
Scribes
What are the 3 kingdoms of Egypt
Adult who rules in place of child ruler
Regent
Why do we know so much about King Tut?
His tomb was discovered and explored in detail
The god of the dead, judges you
What is Osiris
We can now understand Hieroglyphics because of this discovery in 1799?
Rosetta Stone
The Pyramids were built during?
Old Kingdom
The triangular plain at the mouth of the Nile where it flows into the sea.
What is a delta
Noted for abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism and introducing worship centered on the Aten
Akhenaten
The wife of Osiris
What is Isis
Egyptians wrote on a paper made from WHAT?
Papyrus (plant)
Egypt's golden age
New Kingdom
What from the river made the soil very fertile for growing crops.
What is silt.
Regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire.
Ramesses II "the Great"
The god of the burial – mummification with body of a man, head of a jackal.
What is Anubis
Highest rank in government under the Pharaoh
Vizier
What was the capital during the Old Kingdom
Memphis