Geography
The river that runs through Egypt, the longest in the world
What is the Nile River?
Name a type of artifact that might have been found in one of the pyramids
What is...a mummy, food, statues, jewelry, etc.?
The "Boy Pharaoh". His tomb gave us a great deal of information about burial practices and life in Egypt
Who is King Tut (Tutenkamen)?
What is papyrus?
The Nile River flowed in this direction
What is to the north?
The part of ancient Egypt to the south
What is upper Egypt?
These people built the pyramids and were on the second level of the Egyptian social hierarchy
Who were farmers?
The first female pharaoh who increased Egypt's wealth and trade
Who is Hatshepsut?
What is polytheism?
The rapids that made travel between upper and lower Egypt
What are cataracts?
The part of ancient Egypt to the north
What is lower Egypt?
Pharaoh for whom the Great Pyramid at Giza was build for
Who is Khufu?
A government run by religious leaders
What is as theocracy?
The reason that Egyptians mummified bodies and build pyramids
What it to ensure a good afterlife for important people?
The person at the top of the social pyramid
Who was the pharaoh?
Flooding of the Nile every summer/fall led to fertile farmlands covered with silt and caused the Egyptians to build these
What are canals?
Families of rulers that served as pharaohs were called this
What are dynasties?
A four-sided stone column with writing on it
What is an obelisk?
These people had greater rights in Egypt than in Mesopotamia. They could own land and divorce their husbands.
Who were women?
The second level after the pharaoh in the social pyramid
Who were priests/nobles?
The area where the Nile River flows into the Mediterranean Sea that had the best farmland
What is the Nile River Delta?
Who was Menes (MEE-neez)?
The reason that we know so much about ancient Egypt
What is hieroglyphic writing and papyrus being a long-lasting type of writing material?
The Rosetta Stone was important because...
What is that it enabled us to decode hieroglyphics using Greek and later Egyptian?
What is that it happened predictably in the summer?