Egyptian Geography
This is the river on which Ancient Egypt developed.
What is the Nile River?
This is what the ancient the leader of Egypt was called
Who was the pharaoh?
This king united Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who was King Narmer?
This is the largest pyramid ever built in Egypt.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
A material very similar to paper that was made from a reed that grew along the Nile River.
What was papyrus?
More than enough of something.
What is a surplus?
This is the sea that is located north of Egypt.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This is what the ancient prime minister of Ancient Egypt was called.
Who was the vizier?
This was a woman who took the power as pharaoh.
Who was Queen Hatshepsut?
A statue or other free-standing piece of art made of clay, stone, or other materials.
What is a sculpture?
This process preserves bones and soft tissues after death. It was used by ancient Egyptians to preserve their bodies.
What is mummification?
An area of sediment soil, or minerals carried by water to the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
This is the sea that is located east of Egypt. Moses led the Hebrew people across it.
What is the Red Sea?
These people were responsible for sacrificing to the gods and performing rituals.
Who were the priests?
He was one of the most powerful pharaohs of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC, who built many monuments. There is a statue of him outside of the University of Memphis.
Who was Rameses II?
This is what we call all things left over from ancient times.
What are artifacts?
This is the most ancient time period of the dynasties between the years 2686 BC to 2151 BC.
What was the Old Kingdom?
A system of offices and officials that handle the business of government.
What is a bureaucracy?
These are waterfalls along the Nile River.
These people are needed for a civilization to begin.
What are farmers?
The pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid on the Giza Plateau.
This ancient form of picture writing is all over the walls of many ancient Egyptian buildings.
What are hieroglyphics?
This is the middle part of the dynastic rule of ancient Egypt between the years 2055 to 1650 BC.
What was The Middle Kingdom?
What is environmental?
The largest desert in the world, west of Ancient Egypt.
What is the Sahara Desert?
A ruling family was called.
What was a dynasty?
This pharaoh was very young when he took power and passed away.
Who was King Tutankhamen?
This is a large sculpture near the Great Pyramid with the body of a lion and the head of a man.
What is the Great Sphinx?
This is the last part of dynastic rule of ancient Egypt between the years 1550 to 1070.
What was The New Kingdom?
What is devotion?
This is the ancient kingdom south of Egypt.
What was Nubia or Kush?
The group of people who were responsible for reading and writing.
Who were the scribes?
The Sun God, the most important god in Ancient Egypt.
Who was Amon Ra?
The Egyptian Goddess of Fertility.
This is what eventually destroyed Ancient Egypt.
What was Alexander the Great conquering it 332 BC?
The study of the structure of the body and its organs.
What is anatomy?
This plateau is where the three Great Pyramids and the Great Sphinx were built.
What is the Giza Plateau?
The Egyptian God of The Dead.
Who was Osiris?
The god of evil and deception who killed Osiris.
Who was the god Seth?
A stone pillar, typically having a square or rectangular cross-section and a pyramidal top, set up as a monument or landmark that would describe the feats and history of pharaohs.
What is an obelisk?
This was the religious instruction manual that taught the Egyptians what to do when they died.
What was The Egyptian Book of The Dead?
A tool used by astronomers to observe stars and other objects in sky.
What is a merkhet?