Vocabulary
This is the act of giving or doing something to help another person or group.
What is a contribution?
This is an architectural contribution the Egyptians made. They were built as tombs for the kings.
What are the pyramids?
This is the world's longest river that the ancient Egyptians decided to first settle by.
What is the Nile River?
These were the kings of Egypt.
Who are pharaohs?
What is Africa?
This is a way of watering crops that was invented by the ancient Egyptians.
What is irrigation?
This is a way of writing that the Egyptians developed.
What are hieroglyphics?
Name one of the two seas that border Egypt.
What are the Mediterranean Sea or the Red Sea?
These were the people who used the hieroglyphics to record and write about important discussions.
Who are scribes?
The land in ancient Egypt was mostly rainforest, mountains, or desert?
What is desert?
This means very very long ago.
What is ancient?
This was created by the Egyptians to have something to write on.
What is papyrus paper?
When the river flooded this was left behind which made farming easy.
What is rich and fertile soil?
These were the people who were in charge of irrigating the fields for the crops to get water.
Who are the farmers?
How would you describe the land of Egypt today compared to what it looked like at the peak of the civilization?
Smaller
This is a word meaning having to do with buildings or designing buildings.
What is architecture?
Name two things the Egyptians developed to help tell time during the day.
What are the sundial and the water clock?
This is the name of the largest desert in the world that is found in Africa.
What is the Sahara desert?
Name three crops the Egyptians grew.
What are: wheat, barley, figs, melons, vegetables, flax.
How would you describe the land of Egypt today compared to when the civilization first began?
This is a tall, narrow rectangle that comes to a pointy pyramid-like top. The Washington monument in D.C. is an example.
What is an obelisk?
How many days were in the calendar that the Egyptians created?
What is 365 days?
This is the name of the mountain range found in Africa.
What are the Atlas mountains?
These two things had to be made to help people carry things that they needed.
What are baskets and pottery?
Was the climate in Egypt hot and dry, or cold and wet?
hot and dry