Vocabulary
A series of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
This river’s flooding provided rich soil for agriculture in Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
This person was at the top of the social hierarchy in Ancient Egypt.
Who is pharaoh?
The writing system used by Ancient Egyptians.
What are hieroglyphics?
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The cycle on which the Egyptians based their calendar.
What is a lunar cycle?
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What is the moon?
The Nile River is important for this agricultural process.
What is irrigation?
This role in Egyptian society involved writing and keeping records.
What is a scribe?
Pieces of art inside pyramids meant to provide the deceased with objects and pleasures in the afterlife.
What are paintings?
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What are sculptures?
The Kingdom when most of the pyramids were built.
What is the Old Kingdom?
A type of paper made from reeds along the Nile.
What is papyrus?
The Nile River emptied into this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The purpose of pyramids for pharaohs.
What are tombs?
This was a special type of statue developed by ancient Egyptians which looked like a person squatted down into a ball.
What is a block statue?
This is the area where most pharaohs' pyramids are located.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
The study of the structures of the body, which Egyptians learned about through mummification.
What is anatomy?
What is by providing a transportation route?
Both male and female Egyptians wore this to protect themselves from the sun.
What is makeup?
One of the oldest and largest manmade structures on earth, which is a carving of King Khafre.
What is the Great Sphinx?
The cause of the end of the Old Kingdom of Egypt.
What are drought and famine?
An area at the end of a river where soil is deposited.
What is a delta?
The direction the Nile River flows.
What is north?
What group in Egyptian society was responsible for crafting goods like jewelry, pottery, and statues?
Who are artisans?
The pyramid that was the tallest manmade structure on earth, at its time.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
The Middle Kingdom declined because of these foreign invaders.
Who are the Hyksos?