Pharaohs
Ruler of Ancient Egypt
What is a Pharaoh
Triangular Structure
What is a Pyramid
Belief in multiple god/goddesses
What is Polytheism
River that runs through Egypt
What is the Nile River
System of writing in Egypt
What is Hieroglyphics
Ruling family
What is a Dynasty
First Pyramid
God of the Sun
What is Ra
The "Age of the Pyramids"
What is the Old Kingdom
Top of the Social Structure
What is the Pharaoh
Built the Pyramids of Giza
Who is Khufu
Social Class that built the Pyramids
Slaves/Commoners
Why did Egyptian mummify bodies?
Believed the soul would rejoin the body in the afterlife
Importance of the Nile
What is provided them with food, water and protection
First Female Pharaoh
What is Hatshepsut
Purpose of the Pyramids
What is tomb for dead pharaohs
Organ that remained in the body during mummification
What is the heart
What is the Middle Kingdom
Social class of Government Officials and Priests
What is high class
What is Akhenaten
Largest of the Pyramids
What is the Great Pyramids of Giza
Jars used to hold organs
What are Canopic Jars
Burial site during the New Kingdom
What is the Valley of the Kings
Scripts written on the Rosetta Stone
What is Hieroglyphics, Demotic and Greek