Vocbulary
Egyptian kings
Who were pharaohs?
the longest river in the world
What is the Nile?
the female pharaoh of the New Kingdom
Who was Hatshepsut?
the chief/sun god of Egypt
Who was Ra?
Egyptian society was divided into social groups based on
What is wealth and power?
a reed used to make paper
What is papyrus?
largest desert in the world; located in Africa
What is the Sahara?
the pharaoh who tried and failed to bring monotheism to Egypt
Who was Akhenaton/Amenhotep?
the god of mummification
Who was Anubis?
Egyptians depended on the Nile's ________________ to grow their crops
What are floods?
a line of rulers that passes power from father to son
What is a dynasty?
the area to the south of Ancient Egypt
What is the Upper Kingdom?
the greatest of the New Kingdom pharaohs
Who was Ramses II?
the goddess who was a loyal wife and mother
Who was Isis?
These were jars with animal heads used to store organs for the afterlife
What are canopic jars?
The stone slab used to decode the ancient Egyptian language
What is the Rosetta Stone?
the capital of Egypt during the Middle Kingdom
What is Thebes?
the first pharaoh to unite upper and lower Egypt
Who was Narmer/Menes?
the God of the underworld and farming
These two classes would be responsible to harvest papyrus crops
What are the farmers and slaves?
A collection of spells and prayers studies to obtain the afterlife
What is the Book of the Dead?
the capital of Egypt during the Old Kingdom
What is Memphis?
the first pharaoh of the New Kingdom who drove the Hyksos out of Egypt
Who was Ahmose?
the falcon - headed god believed to be the pharaoh
Who was Horus?
Pharaohs had pyramids built to serve as this
What is a tomb?