Geography
A natural barrier that protects the Egyptian people from invaders on both sides of the Nile River
What is a desert?
A ruler has total control and can do whatever he wants with no consequences.
What is absolute power?
The Ancient Egyptians followed a _________ religion. They believed in many gods.
What is polytheistic?
The adviser to the pharaoh near the top of the social pyramid was called ____________.
Who were the government officials?
Canals were dug along the Nile River so that crops could receive water.
What are irrigation canals?
The Nile flows ________ to _________ and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is south to north?
The religious and political leader of Ancient Egypt was called the _______________.
What is the pharaoh?
The Ancient Egyptians preserved their dead bodies for the afterlife.
What was mummification?
The record keepers of Ancient Egypt.
Who were the scribes?
___________ was the writing form of the Ancient Egyptians.
What are hieroglyphics?
The Egyptians depended on the annual flooding of the Nile River to make the land _________.
What is fertile?
The organization of people into different levels based on their specialized job.
The belief in one god.
What is monotheistic?
A peasant is another word for an Egyptian ___________.
What is a farmer?
Large stone __________ were built as tombs for the pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
The area at the mouth of a river with rich deposits of silt.
What is a delta?
______ is a sequence of rulers from the same family. This is how Egypt was ruled for 3,000 years.
What is a dynasty?
The organs were placed in these to help preserve them for eternity.
What are canopic jars?
The people at the bottom of the social people had a large population but limited.......
What is power?
The Egyptians made paper made out of a plant with the same name.
What is papyrus?
A capital resource the Egyptians invented to raise water from the Nile River to the irrigation canals.
What is a shadoof?
What is barter?
This organ was left inside the body during mummification.
What was the heart?
The pharaoh was given total control because he is believed to be this on earth.
Since pyramids did not work to protect the bodies, pharaohs during the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom were buried here.
What is underground (Valley of the Kings)?