Mythology
King of the Gods; God of the noonday sun
Who is Ra?
top of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the Pharaohs?
This river’s floods brought extremely rich silt that replenished Egypt’s agricultural topsoil.
What is the Nile River?
Egyptian writing was a system of characters printed on sheets of papyrus or walls.
What is hieroglyphs?
Goddess of the Nile River
Who is Anuket?
moved into the Nile delta during a series of famines and internal struggles and became rulers of Lower Egypt.This era is known as the Middle Kingdom.
Who are the Hyksos?
this historical monument bears the likeness of Pharoh Khafre
What is the Sphinx?
this book is used to help individuals pass on to the next life
What is the Book of the Dead?
God and chief judge of the underworld.
Who is Osiris?
This group's victory over the Hyksos established the New Kingdom
Who are the Egyptians?
theses types of conflicts shaped Egypt's civilizations.
What are military and/or political conflicts?
The Egyptian religion was ____________, meaning that there was more than one god.
What is polytheistic?
Goddess of Cats
Who is Bastet?
spoke a language belonging to the Indo-European language group and were a people who used iron weapons
Who are the Hittites?
the Mediterranean Sea feeds rich soil into this river.
What is the Nile River?
The Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XXV, alternatively 25th Dynasty or Dynasty 25)
What is the Nubian Dynasty, the Kushite Empire, or the Black Pharaohs?
is a form of specific transportation that the Egyptians are said to have invented that people use today.
What is a sailboat?
These two groups formed an alliance that led to ideas and prosperity for the civilization.
Who are the Egyptians and Hittites?
The Phoenicians established the city-state of Carthage here.
What is along the North African coast?
the joining of separate parts into one.
What is unification?