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?
The type of landform/geography of Kush
What are grasslands?
The ancient Egyptians lived along this river
What is the Nile?
This person 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?
A very precious yellow metal that the Egyptians acquired from the Nubians
What is gold?
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?
This was formed in Lower Egypt, where the Nile River spread out and empties into the Mediterranean Sea (triangle shaped)
What is the delta?
This king conquered the Egyptians
Who is King Piye?
This was the first female pharaoh of ancient Egypt
Who is Hatshepsut?
1st Egyptian Pharaoh
Who is Narmer?
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
Type of strong metal the Kushites learned to make from the Assyrians
What is iron?
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?
The Egyptians worshipped many gods. The term for that is _____.
What is polytheism?
These are the three kingdoms of ancient Egypt
What is old, middle and new?
Natural resources of the Kushites other than GOLD
What is cattle incense, ivory, giraffes, leopards, OR slaves? (MUST be able to name one of these to get points)