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Vocabulary
The Nile
Social Classes
Religion & Medicine
Mummification
100
A large waterfall.
What is a cataract?
100
The direction the Nile River flows.
What is north?
100
The person who stood at the top of the social class pyramid.
Who is the Pharaoh.
100
What the ancient Egyptians built to worship their gods.
What are temples?
100
The preserved body of a dead person.
What is a mummy?
200
Ancient Egyptians who could read and write.
What are scribes?
200
Where the Nile River ends.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
The largest social class.
What are peasants.
200
Life after death.
What is an afterlife?
200
The first step of mummification.
What is removing the organs?
300
An early form of paper made from a reed found in the marshy areas of the Nile Delta
What is papyrus?
300
The Greek historian that explored Egypt in the 400s BC.
Who is Herodotus?
300
Prisoners captured in wars.
What are slaves?
300
The god that ancient Egyptians joined in the afterlife.
Who is Osiris?
300
While workers were preparing the mummy, artisans were busy carving the ________.
What is the coffin?
400
Artificially preserving a body before burial.
What is mummification?
400
The two rivers that meet to form the Nile River.
What is the Blue Nile and the White Nile.
400
The busiest season for Egypt's peasants.
What is the harvest?
400
Doctors were specially trained __________.
What are priests?
400
Where the intestines, lungs, liver and stomach were placed.
What are Canopic jars?
500
Items belonging to a person.
What are possessions?
500
The type of area that made up Lower Egypt.
What is fertile and marshy.
500
These people could own property, run businesses and travel freely.
Who are women?
500
What the ancient Egyptians used as natural remedies for illnesses.
What are plants?
500
The last step of mummification.
What is wrapping the body with long linen bandages?