Vocabulary
A grand structure that Ancient Egyptians built to honor their Pharoahs.
What is a pyramid?
The focus of the Ancient Egyptian religion.
What is life after death?
the way that Egypt got its food.
What is farming or a food source?
sophisticated form or Egyptian writing that used pictures for sounds, words and ideas
What are hieroglyphics?
the longest river in the world that goes through Egypt
What is the Nile River?
A word that shows that the people worship more than 1 god
What is polytheistic?
a name of some of the Ancient Egyptian gods
Who is Ra/Re the sun god?
Who is Horus the god of the Pharoahs?
Who is Osiris god of the dead?
system of getting water to crops or towns
what is irrigation?
enormous structures that celebrated the Pharoahs and are still around today
What are pyramids?
The continent that Egypt is located on.
What is Africa?
A ruler that controlled the religion and government
What is a Pharoah?
The reason that the Egyptians buried their dead with household objects and food.
What is the belief in life after death? and that they needed to return to their bodies and they needed food and other things for the journey.
a way of dividing people by rank or class
what is social hierarchy?
art that showed Egyptian life and the achievements of the Pharoahs
What are tomb paintings?
The landform that Egypt is in.
What is a desert?
A way of preserving a body by wrapping it.
What is a mummy?
The most famous organ or body part for the Egyptians.
What is the heart?
when you have more than enough food and you can develop other parts of your society
What is food surplus?
ornate stone coffins with sculpture and paintings
What are sarcophagi?
The part of geography kept attackers away from Egypt.
What is the desert?
A group of rich people on top of society.
What are nobles?
A stone structure with sculpture and painting that held the bodies of the Pharoahs.
What is a sarcophagus?
art and science of designing buildings
what is architecture?
most famous collection of treasure to last from ancient times in Egypt
What is King Tut's tomb?
The part of the Nile that drains into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile Delta?