Egyptian Geography
This river is the longest in the world and is the lifeblood of Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
This title for the leader of Egypt was equivalent to king, but in the eyes of Egyptian citizens, may as well have meant "living god".
What is pharaoh?
Name one of the great architectural contributions made by ancient Egyptians.
What are pyramids and monuments (Great Sphinx, Pyramid of Giza)?
Egyptians believed in this Sun God, who they felt was responsible for creation of Egypt and everything else?
Who is Ra?
Ancient Egyptians created this writing system, which could be read left to right, right to left, or up to down.
What is hieroglyphics?
Surrounding its main cities and protecting them from invaders is this desert.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This "right hand man" of the pharaoh was the highest ranking official in ancient Egypt; he was in charge of governing and overseeing the citizens of Egypt.
Annual flooding of the Nile River made it so that crops were plentiful enough to feed all citizens of Egypt. This allowed for division of labor. Name three other jobs that could be had in ancient Egypt.
What are farmer, soldier, merchant, scribe, artisan, etc.
True or false: Egyptians feared the gods they worshipped, thinking they were watching to catch them doing bad things and waiting to punish them.
What is false; they felt they were always on their side.
Ancient Egyptians practiced this ritual, which was to prepare the body for the afterlife.
What is mumification?
The major river in Egypt flows in this direction, away from the Egyptian Highlands.
What is north?
This is the name for the system used to rule Egypt by a ruling family, where a pharaoh would pass down leadership to his child, usually his first born son.
What is a dynasty?
Priests were high ranking members of this, which organized society based on roles and responsibilities.
What is the social order or social hierarchy?
Upon dying, the ancient Egyptian would have this organ weighed to determine whether they had lived a good life, as it was believed to be the "thought center" of the body.
What is the heart?
This Egyptian king was the one to unite Upper and Lower Egypt around 3200 BCE.
Who is Menes?
This yearly flooding of the Nile River was so essential to sustaining life in ancient Egypt, they basically named a season after it. We call it this:
What is innundation?
What were the two biggest benefits of having the Nile River for the people of Egypt, (which the government would be responsible for overseeing)?
What are water for agriculture and transportation for trade?
It was a major achievement that ancient Egyptians created this, which allowed for record keeping and was deciphered only within the last few hundred years thanks to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone.
What is a system of writing?
Egyptians believed in over 2,000 gods, meaning they had this type of belief system.
What is polytheistic?
Ancient Egypt was a surprisingly advanced civilization relative to others in history, particularly for women. Name one right that women had that may have been ahead of its time.
The Nile River becomes this as it flows north and deposits in the Mediterranean Sea, a type of wetland made up of sand, silt, and clay.
What is a delta (Nile River delta)?
This is the primary way ancient Egyptians would show love and admiration for their pharaohs?
What is build temples and monuments for them.
Thebes, Memphis, Luxor, and Giza were examples of these, an essential feature of civilization that is possible to develop when agriculture is introduced and there is enough food to feed a growing population.
What are advanced cities?
Egyptians told many myths and stories about the gods. This served these TWO purposes:
What were explaining the world around them, and giving them a set of morals by which to live their life the right way.
Hieroglyphics were carved into tombs, pyramids, monuments, as well as written on this type of paper made from dried reeds.
What is papyrus?