Ancient Egypt 1
Egypt is located on this continent?
What is Africa?
This is the general term for preserving a dead body.
What is embalming?
Worshipping multiple gods.
What is polytheistic?
These were "second homes" to house bodies for the Afterlife.
What is a tomb?
The Egyptians live along this river.
What is the Nile?
This word means king.
What is Pharaoh?
Named for the Greek letter D, this region is where a river meets a larger body of water.
What is a river delta?
True or False: All ancient Egyptians knew how to read and write.
What is False?
This happened when the river inundated the banks.
What is flood?
A large statue that has the body of a lion and the head of a human.
What is Sphinx?
True of False: The Nile floods every year.
What is True?
An Ancient Egyptian form of picture writing.
What are Hieroglyphics?
This was the only organ left in the body of the mummy.
What is the heart?
Horus had the head of a _______
What is falcon?
She was the most powerful female pharaoh.
Who is Hatshepsut?
Egyptian Sun God is ____
Who is Ra?
A type of required labor that people had to do to help their civilization. Most farmers did it during the flood season.
What is labor tax?
Egyptians put this on their faces to keep bugs away.
What is Makeup?
This was the major result of the Nile flooding and reason for Egypt's survival.
What is fertile soil?
Rapids found south along the Nile River are known as _______
What are cataracts?
This is the more common, everyday writing style of the Egyptians.
This older style of pyramid was not smooth-sided, but layered like a cake.
What is a step-pyramid (mastaba)?
These people are the nearest neighbors to the Egyptians, and their first trading partners.
Who are the Nubians?
These were placed inside canopic jars.
What are organs (Liver, Lungs, Stomach, Intestines)?