Vocabulary
Food shortages
What is famine?
Conquered/united Upper and Lower Egypt
Who is King Narmer or King Menes?
Materials Egyptians used to build
What is stone and mud bricks?
What is afterlife?
A ruler of Ancient Egypt
What is pharaoh?
A series of rulers from the same family
What is dynasty?
Great Pyramid of Giza was built for this King
Who is King Khufu?
Egyptians believed the flesh of the gods were made of...
What is gold?
Main purpose of pyramids
What are places of worship?
What is papyrus?
Pictures or symbols that stand for sounds, words, or ideas
What are hieroglyphs?
One of the few women pharaohs
Who is Queen Hatshepsut?
Great Pyramid of Giza was built in which kingdom
What is the Old Kingdom?
Patron god of Thebes
Who is Amon?
A war between two groups in the same nation
What is a civil war?
A triangular shaped piece of farmland from soil deposited at the mouth of a river
What is the Nile Delta?
Fought the Hittites and built magnificent temples all over Egypt
Who was Ramses the Great?
Largest social class
Who are farmers?
The sun's position led Ancient Egyptians to believe in...
What is afterlife?
Very dry
What is arid?
Rapids or waterfalls
What us cataract?
Abandoned the worship of Amon and other Egyptian gods and favored one god, the Aton
Who was Amenhotep IV or Akhenaten?
The city of Memphis was built to...
What is create a capital for a newly united Egypt
Belief in multiple gods
What is polytheism?
The chief adviser to an Egyptian king
What is a vizier?