Geography
This is the continent where Egypt is located.
What is the Northeast corner of Africa?
This was approximately when hieroglyphics were invented.
What is about 5000 years ago or 3000 BC?
The people that were forced to pay 60% of their harvest to taxes were called this.
What are the peasants or farmers.
This god is one of the most well known gods and the god of the underworld.
Who is Osiris?
This is about how long did it take to build the Great pyramid.
What is 20 years?
This is the direction that the Nile River flows from.
What is South to North?
Empties in the Mediterranean Sea
The type of paper that Ancient Egyptians wrote
hieroglyphics on.
What is papyrus?
The teachers, artisans, shopkeepers, doctors and traders were a part of this group.
What is the middle class?
The Egyptians called a soul/spirit this.
What is the Ka?
The tool it is believed that ancient Egyptians use to cut granite.
What is a copper saw?
These are some bordering countries of Egypt.
What are Libya, Israel and Sudan?
This god was believed to have given the Egyptians the gift of writing.
Who is the god of wisdom, Thoth?
This person in the upper class would prepare and take care of the mummies.
(What job?)
Who are the priests and priestesses?
This god was the most powerful sun god and referred to as the hidden one.
Who was the sun god Amon-Re?
The Egyptians put food, jewelry, water, clothing, and gems in the tombs for this reason.
What is they believed they needed everything they would need in actual life for the afterlife?
Egypt is divided into two regions. Name the two regions.
What is upper Egypt and lower Egypt?
Scientists used this to translate Hieroglyphics into words the can understand.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
They rule the land, and they have everything they need in order to stay alive and well and they are believed to be half god.
Who are the pharaohs?
The heart was weighed against this in the weighing of the heart ceremony, conducted by Osiris.
What is Ma'ats feather of truth?
An oval shaped frame with the pharaoh's name on it. It makes them feel protected.
What is a cartouche?
This desert that is located to the west of the Nile is part of this bigger desert.
What is the Sahara Desert?
There were about this many hieroglyphics in the Egyptian language.
What is 750 hieroglyphics?
This job was chosen by very few. These rich nobles were the only people who were able to go to school to learn to write.
What are scribes?
This is the type of religion they practiced.
What is polytheism?
Snefru is believed to have built this, the smoothest pyramid still standing.
What is the Red Pyramid?