Geography & Economy
This river flowed through Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
This word means that the society believed in many G-ds.
What is polytheistic?
During the Old Kingdom, Pharaohs were buried in these structures, located in Giza.
What are pyramids?
This is a symbol or drawing that represented a word or sound in Ancient Egypt.
What is a hieroglyphic?
Land in Egypt was known by these two colors. One color meant that it was dry, and the other meant it was fertile.
What are red and black?
(Red was dry and black was fertile)
The leader of the government.
Who was the Pharaoh?
This plant grew along the river and was used to make paper.
What is papyrus?
Wealthy and upper class Egyptians were treated with this process after they died. Egyptians believed that it preserved their body for afterlife.
What is mummification?
What is the Sahara Desert?
The first of the three Kingdoms is known as this.
What is the Old Kingdom?
Egyptians created this, to help farmers know when to plant and harvest their crops.
What is a (solar) calendar?
The land along the river was known as the "black land" because floods deposited rich soil known as this.
What is silt?
The Nile river was important for this, relating to economy. This is how Ancient Egypt obtained items such as wood, iron, spices.
What is trade?
The third of the fives classes was made up of these, who were important because they helped keep records.
What are scribes?
Egyptians carved their literature onto this material.
What is stone?
Egypt can be divided into three kingdoms and thirty of these, a term for different ruling families.
What are dynasties?
The Nile River flowed this direction, and let out in this body of water.
What is North to the Mediterranean Sea?
Slaves were not the only group at the bottom of the the social pyramid. These two groups were as well.
What are servants and farmers?
Two part question:
Ancient Egyptians advanced their math and engineering skills, to build these (part 1). These came in all different shapes and sizes. One example was this (part 2), which was shaped like a lion with a Pharaoh head, and believed to protect the pyramids.
What are structures?
What are sphinx?
This word means "the way people use and manage their resources." In Ancient Egypt, it centered around farming and fishing.
What is economy?