Geography
The continent where Ancient Egypt was located
What is Africa?
Most free people in Egypt were (profession)
What is farmers?
A large statue that has the body of a lion and the head of a human
What is Sphinx?
Mummies were placed in these
What is a tomb?
A series of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty
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?
This was made out of papyrus and sometimes made into scrolls
What is paper?
This is how the Ancient Egyptians preserved their dead
What is mummification
The Ancient Egyptian form of writing
What are Hieroglyphics?
This triangle shaped area of fertile land at the end of the Nile River was formed in Lower Egypt, where the Nile River spread out and empties into the Mediterranean Sea
What is the delta?
This was the first female pharaoh of ancient Egypt
Who is Hatshepsut?
These are the three kingdoms of ancient Egypt
What is old, middle and new?
The purpose of mummifying a corpse was to prepare the soul for
What is the after-life?
an inspection of a body after death, to determine the cause of death.
What is an autopsy?
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?
These were people who were trained to read and write
What is a scribe
These huge tombs were built by hand with no machines
What are pyramids?
The approximate number of months it took to mummify a body
What is 2 months?
occurring after death
What is Post-Mortem
True of False: The Nile floods every year
What is True?
1st Egyptian Pharaoh
Who is Menes (Narmer)?
The Egyptians worshipped many gods. The term for that is _____.
What is polytheism?
The internal organs of a corpse were place inside of
What are canopic jars?
the act of removing a part from its larger system.
What is extraction?