people
Tutankhamen, Zoser, Akhenaten, Hatshepsut
(Who were they?)
Who are Egyptian Pharaohs?
This happened to the rivers to increase the fertility of the land
What is flooding?
form of writing made up of pictures and symbols
What is hieroglyphics?
textbooks, encyclopedias, and biographies are all examples of these
What are secondary sources?
How both groups kept records and communicated
What is with a written language?
these people were at the bottom of the social hierarchy pyramid
Who were the slaves?
Why the Nile flows south to north
There's a higher elevation in the south
this made the Egyptian economy more prosperous
What is trade?
archeological discovery that led to the ability to decode hieroglyphics
What is the Rosetta Stone?
what both the Sumerians and Egyptians believed in
What is Divine Kingship?
believed to have united Upper and Lower Egypt, according to legend
Who is King Menes?
Geographic feature that Mesopotamia and Egypt had in common
What is a river valley?
This shows the unification of Upper an Lower Egypt
What is the double crown of Egypt?
diaries, autobiographies, written letters, and photographs are are examples of these
What are primary sources?
believing in more than one god
What is polytheism?
what thousands of Egyptian farmers did when the Nile flooded
What is they helped to build the pyramids?
the land in this place was rocky with tall cliffs of granite rock
Where is Nubia?
Nubians worshipped Egyptian Gods, which shows an example of this
What is cultural diffusion?
process used to preserve bodies for the afterlife
What is mummification?
what both the Sumerians and Egyptians depended on for survival
What is the river?
these people were still considered Gods after death
Who are the pharaohs?
the longest river in the world
What is the Nile River?
reason why Ancient Egyptians believed their leaders were special
They believed their leaders were god-like
In 1922, Howard Carter discovered the tomb of this well preserved pharaoh
Who is Tutankhamen?
Both groups had given some rights to whom?
Who are women?