Geography
This desert lies to the west of Egypt and is the largest in the world.
What is the Sahara?
This pharaoh built the great pyramids in Giza.
Who is Khufu?
The Nile River flows from ___(direction)__ to _(direction)__.
What is South to North?
This natural substance found Egypt was used in mummification to desiccate (dry out) corpses.
What is natron?
These people were at the very bottom of Egypt's social class pyramid.
What are slaves?
The three largest pyramids in Egypt are located in this city of Ancient Egypt.
What is Giza?
This god is both a creator of other gods and a sun god.
Who is Ra?
This body of water lies to the east of Egypt.
What is the Red Sea?
This pharaoh's only real claim to fame was becoming pharaoh at a young age, and dying of mysterious causes.
Who was Tutankhamen (King Tut)?
This is a triangular shaped piece of land at the mouth of the river containing rich soil.
What is the Nile Delta?
The internal organs of the person being mummified were placed in these special jars.
What are canopic jars?
What is papyrus?
This pyramid was the first ever built in Egypt.
What is the Djoser Steppe Pyramid?
This god rules the underworld in Egypt.
Who is Osiris?
This ancient nation, today called Sudan, lay to the south of Ancient Egypt.
What is Nubia?
This woman ruled as pharaoh for about 15 years until her son came of age, and was one of the only women to be called pharaoh in Egypt's history.
Who is Hatchesup?
At more than ______ miles long, the Nile River is the longest in the world.
What is 4,000?
The Egyptians left this organ in the body because they believed it was the center of intelligence.
What is the heart?
These two rights of Egyptian women set them apart from women in most other ancient civilizations.
What are the rights to own a business and land?
What is a tomb?
This god killed his brother, cut his body into 14 pieces, and scattered them across Egypt.
Who is Set/Seth?
This body of water lies to the north of Egypt.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This pharaoh--married to the beautiful Nefertiti--is often referred to as "the Great" due to defeat of the Hittites in 1274 and the great wealth he brought to the kingdom.
Who is Ramses II, aka Ramses the Great?
Between these months, melting snow and water from the mountains causes the Nile to flood.
What is June to October?
This is what Egyptian priests did with the body of the pharaoh after it was taken out of the salt and washed.
What is wrap it in linen?
This social class was second only to the pharaohs in Egyptian society.
Who are soldiers?
The pyramids in Giza were once covered in this bright white stone.
What is limestone?
This god has the head of a falcon, and lost an eye in the battle in which he defeated his uncle and became the ruling god of the Nile River Valley.
Who is Horus?
This desert peninsula lies to the east of Egypt, and to the north of the Red Sea.
What is the Sinai Desert?
This pharaoh made Egypt monotheistic, ushering in a religious revolution in which he required that all Egyptians worship the sun god, Aten.
Who is Akenaten?
During these months, flood waters have receded leaving rich black silt, and farmers plant crops.
What are November and December?
This is the book that contains the prayers which priests said to help the dead make their way to the underworld.
What is The Book of the Dead?
These people were usually priests, and kept all of the written records in Egypt.
Who are scribes?
This is the amount of stone that needed to be quarried in order to complete the great pyramids.
What is 5 million tons?
What is Nun?