Vocabulary
This is a plant that grows along the Nile.
What is papyrus?
This individual is known for uniting Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Narmer?
This area is the main source of water for Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
This Egyptian myth focused on how the world and everyone in it came to be.
What is the Egyptian Creation Myth?
This individual was at the top of the Egyptian social pyramid.
Who is the pharaoh?
What are pyramids?
This individual is mainly known because of his perfectly preserved tomb that was found in the 1920s.
Who is Tutankhamen?
This is the capital of Egypt created by Narmer.
What is Memphis?
This Egyptian god was killed by their brother and later become the god of the underworld/land of the dead.
Who is Osiris?
This group took over Egypt but continued many of the same traditions.
Who are the Kush?
The process of preserving a body to make a mummy.
What is embalming?
This individual is known for being a female pharaoh who ruled Egypt for 20 years.
Who is Hatshepsut?
This area is the south-central part of the Nile River.
What is Upper Egypt?
This myth involved a large statue that spoke and helped out a young Egyptian prince.
What is the myth the Prince and the Sphinx?
The Egyptians got horse-drawn chariots from this group.
Who are the Hyksos?
A government ruled by religious leaders or officials.
What is a theocracy?
This individual changed the religion of Egypt to be monotheistic and only worship Aton.
Who is Amenhotep?
This is the city where the capital of Egypt was moved to.
What is Thebes?
This myth detailed the journey a person goes on after they die as they try to reach the afterlife.
What is the myth the Land of the Dead?
The Egyptians believed that the pharaoh was the physical representation of this god.
Who is Ra?
This a government official from another country.
What is envoy?
This individual focused more on the military over trade and tried to erase the mention of Hatshepsut.
Who is Thutmose III?
This area was seen as a gateway to the afterlife and where pharaohs were buried during the Middle and New Kingdoms.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
This myth told the story of a son trying to enact revenge against the man who killed his father.
What is the myth Horus the Avenger?
This pharaoh ruled for over 60 years bringing much peace and prosperity to Egypt. They were the last great pharaoh of the New Kingdom
Who is Ramses II?