Geography
This is the continent on which Egypt is located.
What is Africa?
Ancient Egyptians believed that the earth looked like this kind of breakfast food.
What is a pancake?
The Egyptian Empire was formed when this man united Upper and Lower Egypt around 3100 BCE.
Who is King Menes?
These special bottles were used to hold organs that were removed the deceased bodies.
What are canopic jars?
Those responsible for all the writings in ancient Egypt were called this.
What are scribes?
Used for transportation and trade, this is the major waterway that runs through Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
Peasants and _____ made up the lowest level of Egyptian society.
What are servants?
He is the famous pharaoh whose complete tomb was discovered in 1922.
Who is Tutankhamen or "King Tut"
The mummification process took this many days.
What is 70 days?
The word hieroglyphics come from the Greek word meaning this.
What is "holy writing?"
The Nile River Delta ends in this large body of water to the north.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
These were special, sacred animals to the ancient Egyptians.
What are cats?
Khufu is responsible for building this ancient wonder during the time period of the Old Kingdom.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
Once preserved, bodies would be wrapped in nearly a mile length of this kind of material.
What is linen?
Hieroglyphics were usually carved into stone tablets using these tools.
What are hammers and chisels?
Also known as the "Black Lands," for its dark, rich soil, this area of northern Egypt was perfect for farming.
What is Lower Egypt?
Irrigation systems were constructed to help control the Nile River from doing this.
What is flooding?
Akhenaten is known as the pharaoh who changed Egyptian religion from polytheism to this form of religion.
What is monotheism?
Bodies would be dried out by covering them in natron, which is a type of this.
What is salt?
The simplified form of writing called hieratic script was mostly written on this material.
What is papyrus?
Upper Egypt, which got its name from being at a higher elevation was called "red lands" because it was mostly this kind of landform.
What is desert?
Egyptian government was this, which means there were officials in charge of different procedures to get things done.
What is bureaucracy?
This powerful pharaoh was able to take power by marrying her younger brother.
Who is Hatshepsut?
Egyptians believed they had a physical body and a ____ (a spiritual body)
What is ka?
This artifact that was discovered in 1799, and helped us to decipher hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?