Society and Culture
Who provided most manual labor, a stable food supply, and acted as servants for nobles?
Who is the the lower classes?
This item is what ancient Egyptians used to write upon.
What is papyrus?
What made Hatshepsut unique?
What is she was the first female pharaoh.
This invention helped farmers with irrigation
What is a shadoof?
Ancient Egyptian religion is this type.
What is polytheistic or polytheism?
Ancient Egyptians used this to communicate on papyrus.
What is hieroglyphics?
This large body of water is to the north of Egypt
and provided protection from that direction.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The pharaoh required all other people
to see the ruler as one of these.
What is a god?
There are many of these massive
constructions throughout Egypt.
What are pyramids?
What is was one way that an ancient Egyptian man could rise above his parents’ social class?
What is he could go to scribe school to become a scribe?
A manual with spells to help Egyptians pass tests in the afterlife
What is the Book of the Dead.
This is a geographic formation where the Nile River
meets the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile Delta (or river delta)?
Under which pharaoh's rule was the Great Pyramid at Giza built?
Who is Khufu?
This is a room or chamber for the burial of the dead.
What is a tomb?
Farmers used this annual occurrence to help them grow their produce.
What is the annual flooding of the Nile River?
Ancient Egyptians were very good with medicine and science.
This means of preserving their dead is one example of
their skills.
What is mummification or embalming.
Where did Egyptians get their slaves from?
They bought them from neighboring countries they defeated.
This god used the scales to weigh the heart of the deceased against the feather of truth to determine if they were worthy to enter the afterlife.
Who is Thoth?
What is a high-ranking government official called?
Who is a vizier?
In addition to the annual flooding of the Nile River,
ancient and modern Egyptian farmers still use this
technology in their farming.
What is irrigation?
This is one of the mathematical innovations
of the ancient Egyptians still in use today.
What is the 365 day calendar
... or... the base 10 number system?
or the video mentioned geometry.
The Nile River flows in this direction.
What is north?
This woman was the last ancient Egyptian pharaoh.
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Who is Cleopatra?
An ancient city in upper Egypt that became the capital of the new kingdom.
What is Thebes?