Geography
The name of the river in Ancient Egypt
What is the Nile River?
The belief in more than one (1) god
What is polytheism?
A writing system that uses pictures and symbols instead of letters and words.
What is hieroglyphics?
This person was the leader of the Ancient Egyptian religion and politics
What is the Pharaoh?
The social class made up of farmers and slaves; this was the largest social class
What is lower class?
The month that the Nile River floods every year, making it very reliable
What is July?
The ____ were represented as part human and part animal
What are the gods/goddesses?
This was used as paper, baskets, sandals, rope, blankets, tables, and many more
What is papyrus?
A system of government where a king or queen is the leader of the country
What is a monarchy?
This social class included soldiers, scribers, merchants, and artisans; were considered “the working class”
What is the middle class?
The time of land/climate of Ancient Egypt
What is desert/hot and dry?
It was believed that the ______ controlled the rising of the sun, the flooding of the Nile River, and the growing of crops
What is the Pharaoh?
Ancient Egyptians used ______ as their main form of transportation
What are boats/rivers?
Early Ancient Egypt was divided into these two (2) different regions
What are Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt?
This social class included government officials, nobles, and priests; rich and powerful
What is the upper class?
The land where a river empties out into another body of water
What is a delta?
To preserve a dead body to stop it from decaying
What is embalming?
The largest pyramid in Ancient Egypt
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
The type of economy that both Ancient Egypt and Ancient Mesopotamia had
What is a barter/trade system?
These were the main crops grown in Ancient Egypt
What are wheat and barley?
The direction that the Nile River flows
What is South to North?
________ were built for Pharaohs to be buried in. These places were thought to be their homes in the Afterlife, so Pharaohs were buried with their prized possessions.
What are pyramids?
The ancient Egyptian ______ system was composed of seven (7) symbols
a line
a loop
a rope
a flower
a finger
a tadpole
God
What is a number system?
A piece of copper that weighed about 90 grams; used later in Ancient Egypt as "money"
What is a deben?
The two main ways of trade transportation
What is by river and by caravan?