The continent where Ancient Egypt was located
What is Africa?
This is the most famous type of Egyptian architecture.
What are Pyramids?
The rulers of Ancient Egypt were called this.
What is a Pharaoh?
The name of the civilization that lived to the South of the Nile River?
What is Kush?
This natural disaster that happened to the Nile on a regular basis made the soil fertile for growing crops.
What is flooding?
The Egyptian civilization was built along this river.
What is the Nile?
A belief that when a person died, their spirit lived on.
This is often called "The Gift of the Nile"
What is the fertile soil?
What are scribes and craftsman?
The Ancient Egyptian form of writing made up of symbols and pictures.
What is Hieroglyphics?
This is how often the Nile River floods
Mummy coffins that went inside a tomb.
What is a sarcophagus?
This type of plant was harvested and made into baskets, paper, and sandals.
What is Papyrus?
The name given to desert areas that helped protect Ancient Egypt from invaders.
What is Red Land?
The fertile land between the Nile river and red lands; It is where the Egyptian civilization lived.
The Nile is the __________ river in the world.
Longest.
This is how the Ancient Egyptians preserved their dead.
.What is mummification?
These huge tombs were built by hand with no machines
Pyramids
This group of people made up the majority of population but ranked lowest in the social hierarchy.
What are farmers, slaves, and servants?
Made from flax, this is a lightweight type of cloth used for clothing.
A large statue that has the body of a lion and the head of a human.
What is a Sphinx?
What type of religion did Egyptians follow?
What is polytheism?
These are expensive materials that were often used to make Egyptian artwork.
What are ivory and gold?
What is complicated?
The Great Pyramid of Giza took over 20 years to build so that it could house the mummified body of which Pharaoh?
Who is Khufu?