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Vocabulary
100
This person can be found at the top of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
Who is the pharaoh?
100
This item is what ancient Egyptians used to write upon.
What is papyrus?
100
The longest river in the world
What is The Nile?
100
The head of the ancient Egyptian government was called this.
What is pharaoh?
100
This invention helped farmers with irrigation
What is a shadoof?
200

The pharaoh who tried to change Egypt's religion to only worship one god.

Who is Akhenaten?

200
Ancient Egyptians used this to communicate on papyrus.
What is hieroglyphics?
200

This is the Egyptians' name for the dry, desert land

What is the Red Land?

200
The pharaoh required all other people
to see the ruler as one of these.
What is a god?
200

She was not only known for being a female pharaoh, but for being an excellent pharaoh of egypt.

Who is Hatshepsut?

300
These are the people at the bottom of the social pyramid in ancient Egypt.
Who were unskilled workers?
300

This is the jackal-headed god that, according to Egyptian religious beliefs, weighed the heart against the feather in the afterlife.

Who is Anubis?

300
This is a geographic formation where the Nile River
meets the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile Delta (or river delta)?
300

The amount of power someone had in ancient Egypt was determined by what?

Their connection to the gods

300

Upper Egypt was in this part of the country

The southern part

400
Farmers used this annual occurrence to help them grow their produce.
What is the annual flooding of the Nile River?
400

Ancient Egyptians were very good with medicine and science.

This method of preserving their dead is one example of

their skills.

What is mummification or embalming.

400

This was the Egyptians' name for land that was fertile after the flood

What is the Black Land?

400
This woman was the last ancient Egyptian pharaoh.
Who is Cleopatra?
400
There are many of these massive
constructions throughout Egypt.
What are pyramids?
500

In addition to the annual flooding of the Nile River,

ancient and modern Egyptian farmers still use this

technology in their farming.

What are irrigation methods such as canals, dams, etc?

500
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?

(Either answer works, you should know both!)

Our textbook also mentions geometry.
500
The Nile River flows in this direction.
What is north?
500

Today, this pharaoh is known as the greatest leader that ancient Egypt ever had.

Who is Ramses II or Ramses the Great?

500

This pharaoh is known for his intact tomb

Who is Tut.