True or False : The Nile is the longest river in the world.
100
False.
True or False : Most religion had nothing to do with gods.
100
Farmers, servants, slaves.
What people were considered to make up the lower class?
100
Hieroglyphics are the written language of Ancient Egyptians.
What are hieroglyphics?
200
The people of the town would also have an unpleasant afterlife.
What did the Egyptians believe happened to them if the gods had a bad afterlife?
200
The Nile brought fertile soil and plenty of water to the upper and lower Egypt allowing it to thrive.
Why was Ancient Egypt refereed to as "the gift of the Nile"?
200
Yes.
Did gods differ from place to place?
200
Nobles.
What is the official name for the upper class people?
200
Papyrus.
What type of material did Egyptians write on?
300
Several weeks.
How long did it take to embalm a body?
300
A cataract is a type of river rapid that flows sort of like a waterfall.
Explain what a cataract is.
300
Geb, Isis, Horus, Re/Amon-Re, Osiris, Thoth
Name at least 4 Egyptian gods.
300
The lower class.
What was the class with the largest population of people?
300
About 3% of the population.
What percentage of the population could read hieroglyphics?
400
The middle to upper class people including elites, pharaohs, priests, nobles got to be mummified.
What social class and the people in it would get to be mummified?
400
An irrigation system.
What was the most modern type of technology used with the Nile river?
400
Re/Amon-Re, Osiris, Isis, Horus, Thoth, Geb
Name the Egyptian gods in the correct order listed.
400
False ; Everyone but scribes had to pay taxes because they were in such a high social class and were treated with respect.
True or False : All people (other than the Pharaoh) had to pay taxes.
400
Scribes, some merchants, and most of the upper class people who could afford school.
Which people of the Egyptian population could read hieroglyphics?
500
Ka, is a persons life force. Ka would need to be treated like how any other human would be treated like giving it food, entertainment, and rest.
What is the meaning of ka and how would it need to be treated?
500
The black land was used to call the area in Ancient Egypt which had lots of silt because of it's dark colour and the red land was used to call the dry, lifeless desert beyond the Nile.
What were the terms "black land" and "red lands" meanings?
500
Memphis became a center to worship Ptah.
Which city became a center for a certain god, and which god was it?
500
The lower (slaves) to mid (architects) class built the pyramids and priests and pharaohs were allowed in the pyramids.
Which social class built the pyramids and who was later allowed to enter the pyramids?
500
The Rosetta Stone made it possible for people who knew Greek and a later form of Egyptian, to read hieroglyphics.
What made reading hieroglyphics possible and what languages could you read it in?