Ancient Egypt 1
The continent where Ancient Egypt was located
What is Africa?
Most people in Egypt were (profession)
What is farmers?
This is how the Ancient Egyptians preserved their dead
What is mummification
Mummies were placed in these
What is a tomb?
This was formed in Lower Egypt, where the Nile River spread out and empties into the Mediterranean Sea (triangle shaped)
What is a delta?
The ancient Egyptians lived along this river
What is the Nile?
Who was at the top of the social hierarchy in ancient Egypt?
What is a Pharaoh?
The Nile provided this for the Ancient Egyptians
What is it provided rich soil for growing food; it provided water for growing food; the Egyptians used boats on the Nile to carry food from place to place?
True or False: All ancient Egyptians knew how to read and write
What is False?
What is desert?
A large statue that has the body of a lion and the head of a human.
What is Sphinx?
True of False: The Nile floods every year
What is True?
The Ancient Egyptian form of writing
What are Hieroglyphics?
Ancient Egyptians believed this body part would be weighed to see if they could get into the afterlife.
What is the heart?
This black rock helped historians decipher (figure out) ancient hieroglyphics
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This was the first female pharaoh of ancient Egypt
Who is Hatshepsut?
1st Egyptian Pharaoh
Who is Menes?
These huge tombs were built by hand with no machines
What are pyramids?
These were people who were trained to read and write
What is a scribe
Mummification and the pyramids (tombs) show the importance of the ______ in ancient Egypt
What is afterlife?
Howard Carter found this in 1922
What is King Tut's tomb?
This was made out of papyrus and sometimes made into scrolls
What is paper?
Egyptian gods or goddesses were often pictured with human bodies and the heads of _______
What is animals?
These are the three kingdoms of ancient Egypt
What is old, middle and new?
The Egyptians worshipped many gods. The term for that is _____.
What is polytheistic?