Vocab
Ruler of Egypt
What is a pharaoh?
North
What is the direction the Nile River flows?
Farming
What was Ancient Egypt's economy based on?
Writing
What helped us know the history of Ancient Egypt?
rich and fertile soil left behind from the flooding of the Nile River
What is silt?
Study of the stars and planets
What is astronomy?
Desert
When you travel east and west from the Nile Valley, what is the land?
Grain and barley
What were two major agricultural products of Ancient Egypt?
Left mummy behind
What did tomb robbers leave behind?
What is a pyramid?
a line of rulers from the same royal family
What is a dynasty?
A benefit to ancient Egyptian farmers
What is the Nile River flooding?
Tombs for pharaohs
What were pyramids used for?
government
What is an important part of civilization?
people who received training to write hieroglyphics
What is a scribe?
a system of transporting water from a river, lake, or well to make farming possible in a dry region.
What is irrigation?
What is an effect of irrigation along the Nile River?
Bring themselves glory
Why did pharaohs want to build pyramids?
The floods followings the rainy season in the highlands of Africa
When the Ancient Egyptians knew when the yearly floods would occur?
a country's use of workers and resources to produce goods
What is economy?
the first female Pharaoh.
Who is Hatshepsut?
rich and fertile
What was the result of the overflow of the Nile River?
the economy weakening
What was a destructive consequence of building pyramids?
he worshiped only one of the Egyptian gods
Why was Amenhoptep unpopular?
belief in many gods and goddesses
What is polytheism?