Key Terms
What is a pharaoh?
Ruler of Egypt
What are cataracts?
Rapids in the Nile
A time period in Egyptian history that lasted for 500 years.
This paper like material is made from reeds?
What is papyrus?
What is a dynasty?
A series of rulers from the same family.
What is a delta?
a triangle-shaped area of land made from soil deposited by a river
Who was Khufu?
He is famous for building monuments that were built in honor of him.
Who is the Pharaoh who rose from power and reclaimed Egypt's land. He is the reason Egypt will begin the New Kingdom?
Who is Ahmose?
This huge stone allowed us to be able to read hieroglyphics and was translated from arabic to Greek?
What is the Rosetta Stone?
What is a theocracy?
A government ruled by a religious authorities?
Who was Menes?
a pharaoh who rose to power in Upper Egypt and combine Egypt as one.
These structures were meant for after the Pharaoh after they passed away?
What are the pyramids?
Who was the boy king who became Pharaoh at 9 years old and "mysteriously died at the age of 18/19?
Who was King Tutankhamen?
The Egyptians use both the _________ and ___________? How many days are in a year in Egypt?
Lunar and solar calendar. 365 days.
What is hieroglyphics?
The rich and powerful families in Egypt had some power as well as the Pharaoh.
What is the nobles?
Embalming and wrapping the bodies was a way to preserve the Pharaoh and nobility after they passed on.
What is mummification?
Who was Queen Hatshepsut?
This imaginary creatures showed the brave, strong leadership of Egypt with a body of a lion and a head of a human?
What is the Sphinx?
People of wealth and power can only be mummified? They belong to royalty as well as other members in Egypt?
What is elite?
What is engineering?
What is the Egyptian society social ranking order from most powerful to common person?
Pharaoh, Nobles, Scribes and craftspeople and Farmers, servants and enslaved people.
Who was famous for fighting the Hittites and building many great temples during his life time?
Who is Rames the Great?
This four sided pillar has a point at the top?
What is a obelisk?