Geography
This river was essential to ancient Egyptian civilization, providing water, transportation, and fertile soil.
What is the Nile River?
The belief in multiple gods is called_____
What is polytheism?
Egyptians wrote on this type of paper made from reeds.
What is papyrus?
This person is considered the ruler/ king.
Who is the pharaoh?
This person was at the very top of the social pyramid.
Who is the pharaoh?
This natural barrier helped protect ancient Egypt from invaders.
What is the desert?
Ancient Egyptian religion focused on the _____ or life after death.
What is the afterlife?
These structures were built as places to store the bodies of pharaohs. It is one of the 7 wonders of the world.
What are pyramids?
The pharaoh is considered to be both a _________ and a __________
What is a king and a god?
These people were at the VERY bottom of the social class pyramid.
Who are slaves and servants?
These in the Nile River made it so it was hard to cross the river.
What are cataracts?
The "ka" is a person's ______
What is life force?
The name of Egyptian writing that were written. It is hard to read!
What are hieroglyphics?
These are items Egypt got from trading with Nubia.
What is gold, ivory, slaves and stone?
This small but important group of Egyptian society was often made up of people from rich or powerful families.
Who are nobles?
A coating the land of the river was___
What is silt?
These are the steps for mummification.
What are embalming, wrapping, and burial?
The massive statue with the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh that guards the pyramids at Giza.
What is the Great Sphinx?
These are items that Egypt got when they traveled to Punt.
What are incense and myrrh?
Egypt's lower class made up 80% of the population. It was mostly made up of _____
What are famers?
This direction is called "Upper Egypt" and it is actually to the _______ of Lower Egypt.
What is the south?
This god is believed to to rule over the underworld and judge the dead.
Who is Osiris?
Pharaoh that the Great Pyramid of Giza was built for.
Who is Khufu?
This term refers to a series of rulers from the same family, often maintaining power in ancient Egypt for several generations.
What is a dynasty?
These people had no voice in government.
Who are women?