Ancient Egypt 1
The continent where Ancient Egypt was located
What is Africa?
This word means a long, long time ago
What is ancient?
The power over something or someone.
What is influence?
Mummies were placed in these
What is a tomb?
This is the habitat of Egypt
What is desert?
The ancient Egyptians lived along this river
What is the Nile?
This word means king
What is Pharaoh?
The Nile provided this for the Ancient Egyptians
What is it provided rich soil for growing food; it provided water for growing food; the Egyptians used boats on the Nile to carry food from place to place?
The system of bringing water to an area.
What is irrigation?
This word is what happens when there was too much water for the Nile to hold
What is flood?
A large statue that has the body of a lion and the head of a human.
What is Sphinx?
What is ancient?
The Ancient Egyptian form of writing
What are Hieroglyphics?
What was the capital of the New Kingdom?
What is Thebes?
Name three things they found while excavating King Tut's tomb
They found 5000 objects in the tomb. Examples - statues, gold jewelry, Tutankhamun's mummy, chariots, model boats, canopic jars, chairs, and paintings
365- Day Calendar, clock, and hieroglyphics.
What are Ancient Egypt's contributions?
The design of buildings.
What is architecture?
These enormous structures were built by hand with no machines
What are pyramids?
Used to make paper in Ancient Egypt.
What is papyrus?
What is a contribution?
Pyramids and Temples
This was made out of papyrus and sometimes made into scrolls
What is paper?
This is how the Ancient Egyptians preserved their dead
What is mummification?
Ancient Egyptians removed all organs except the ____
What is the heart?
What are 3 benefits for civilizations settling near a river valley?
fertile soil, access to water routes for trade, access to a water supply, resources such as fish