Geography
The Nile River flows in this direction.
What is North?
Type of religion practiced by the Egyptians, and later by Kush.
What is polytheism?
Stone tomb with triangle-shaped sides that come together to form a point on top.
What is a pyramid?
A group of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
The top of the ancient Egyptian social hierarchy.
Who is the pharaoh?
A section of the Nile River with rapids and rocky terrain.
What are the cataracts?
Believed to be a god sent to earth to communicate on behalf of the Egyptian people.
Who is the pharaoh?
Tall pillars with four sides and a point at the top.
What is an obelisk?
A system of government ruled by religious leaders.
What is a theocracy?
Second to top of the ancient Egyptian social hierarchy.
Who are the Nobles?
A fan-shaped region created when soil is deposited at the end of a river.
What is a delta?
The ideology of cosmic harmony and balance existing on earth and across the universe, also represented as a god.
What is Ma'at?
Statue of a mythical creature with the head of a king and the body of a lion.
What is the Great Sphinx of Giza
Burial site of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Khufu, one of the most famous pharaohs of the Old Kingdom.
What is the Great Pyramid?
The first Kushite queen to rule without a king.
Who is Shanakdakhete?
A kingdom located south of Ancient Egypt in Nubia.
What is Kush?
Body preserved in a way to prevent decomposition.
What is a mummy?
The Egyptians created one of the first writing systems in the world called using symbols to communicate sounds, words, and ideas.
What are hieroglyphics?
One of few female pharaohs in Egyptian history, who greatly increased Egypt’s wealth through trade with other civilizations, and more.
Who is Hatshepsut?
Kept written records for the Egyptian government and temples, while also creating stories and other literature.
What is a scribe?
The capital of Ancient Egypt.
What is Cairo?
It was believed that each person’s body and spirit were linked together after death, and the body must exist so the spirit could go to the afterlife.
Why were people mummified?
Kushite writing system, using both an alphabet and hieroglyphics.
What is Meroitic script?
Made life in the desert possible for the ancient Egyptians by leaving behind fertile soil.
What is the flooding of the Nile?
Led her army against the Roman Empire despite being blind in one eye, negotiated favorable treatment from the Roman emperor Augustus after the war.
Who is Amanirenas?