Egyptian Vocab
Rulers from all the same bloodline.
What is a dynasty?
When mummifying a person, they would put internal organs in THESE for burial.
What are canopic jars?
Huge stone tombs with four triangle-shaped walls that meet at a top point.
What are pyramids?
A pharaoh whose tomb was untouched by raiders, leaving much information about Egyptian art and burial practices.
Who is King Tut?
Steep river rapids, almost impossible to sail by boat.
What are cataracts?
These are the differences between trade ROUTES and a trade NETWORK.
Trade routes: paths followed by traders
Trade network: A system of people in different lands who trade goods back and forth
Egyptian religion followed many gods. Name the name for their religion as well as the name for the religion they converted to (think prefixes).
What is polytheism and monotheism?
A tall, four-sided pillar that is pointed on top.
What is an obelisk?
An Egyptian leader who united both Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom and wore a double crown.
Who is Menes?
A triangle-shaped area of land made of soil deposited by a river.
What is a delta?
Define Theocracy.
A system of government in which religious officials had the power to make and approve laws.
This god became the Egyptian Lord of the Underworld and Judge of the dead after he was killed by his brother.
Who is Osiris?
Huge ancient Egyptian statues of imaginary creatures with the heads of people or animals and bodies of lions.
What are sphinxes?
Egypt's second female pharaoh who expanded trade.
Paper is made from this plant found growing alongside the Nile River.
What is papyrus?
Two vocab words: one meaning goods brought in from other countries or regions and one meaning goods sent out for sale in other regions.
What are imports and exports?
This god was known for weighing hearts against the feather of truth to judge one's worthiness for the afterlife.
Who is Anubis?
The pharaoh who ordered that the first pyramid be built.
Who is Khufu?
Name one of the achievements Ramses II is known for.
What is military advancement and the building of temples?
Many statues and structures in ancient Egypt was made out of this material.
What is limestone?
Write the order of the Egyptian kingdoms as well as one word to describe each of them.
Old Kingdom: Unity or New, because Upper and Lower Egypt were just united by Menes.
Middle Kingdom: Stability and Order, because strong pharaohs created structure in society and they faced no attacks.
New Kingdom: Height, Peak, Power, Glory, Golden Age, because Egypt was at its best before its decline.
The Egyptians would bury people with all their belongings, believing that their soul, or THIS, would find them in the afterlife.
What is ka?
The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.
What is engineering?
Pick ONE to answer: The first woman to rule Kush; ruled from 170 BC to 150 BC or Aksumite king who destroyed Meroë and took over the kingdom of Kush.
Queen Shanakhdakheto or King Ezana
Kush was able to cross these two bodies of water to trade with China and India.
What is the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea?