Society and Culture
This person can be found at the top of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
Who is a pharaoh?
This item comes from a plant and is what ancient Egyptians used to write upon.
What is papyrus?
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
The head of the ancient Egyptian government was called this.
Who is a pharaoh?
This invention helped farmers with irrigation
What is a shadoof?
The worshipping of many gods.
What is polytheism?
The writing system of Ancient Egypt.
What is hieroglyphics?
This fan-shaped geographic formation where the Nile River meets the Mediterranean Sea.
What is a river delta?
The pharaoh required all other people
to see the ruler as one of these.
What is a god?
A line of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
These are the group people at the bottom of the social pyramid in ancient Egypt.
Who are enslaved people, servants, and farmers?
(Guessing one of these groups is ok.)
Ancient Egyptians were very good with medicine and science.
This means of preserving their dead is one example of
their skills.
What is mummification?
This extreme geographic land form is to the west of Egypt.
What is a desert?
One of the two types of governments
that made up the blended ancient Egyptian government.
What is monarchy or theocracy?
These are wild, dangerous rapids located in the Nile River.
What are cataracts?
Farmers used this annual occurrence to help them grow their crops.
What is the annual flooding of the Nile River?
This is the large stone slab that was used to decode hieroglyphics
What is the Rosetta Stone?
The Nile River flows in this direction.
What is north?
Many gods appeared in Egyptian art with the heads of these...
What are animals?
There are many of these massive
stone-tomb constructions throughout Egypt.
What are pyramids?
In addition to the annual flooding of the Nile River,
ancient and modern Egyptian farmers still use this
technology in their farming. (Hint: it was a vocabulary word in the last unit.)
What is irrigation?
The type of calendar the Ancient Egyptians created.
What is the solar calendar or the 365 day calendar?
This large body of water is to the north of Egypt
and provided protection from that direction.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This woman was the last ancient Egyptian pharaoh.
Who was Cleopatra VII?
The name for the group of people who were builders, carpenters, sculptors, and metalworkers in Ancient Egypt.
What are artisans?