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Life in Ancient Egypt
The Pyramid Builders
The New Kingdom
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Fine soil deposited by a river.
What is silt
100
How did irrigation canals expand farmland in Egypt?
What is canals carried water to land that did not have enough.
100
A structure with triangular sides that meet at a point.
What is pyramid
100
A four-sided shaft with a pyramid-shaped top.
What is obelisk
100
A picture that stands for a word or letter.
What is hieroglyph
200
Good for growing crops
What is fertile
200
Why did Egypt develop along the Nile River?
What is the Nile provided fertile soil, water, transportation, and food.
200
The name of the pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid?
Who is Khufu
200
Which pharaoh reigned the longest?
What is Ramses II.
200
The title of a king in ancient Egypt.
What is pharaoh
300
A person whose job was to write and keep records.
What is scribe
300
Name four types of jobs that Egyptians held.
What is laborers, farmers, scribes, priest, pharaoh, trader, artisan, merchant, government official.
300
What was the purpose of the pyramids?
What is the pyramids were thought to be the palaces of the pharaohs, they housed the mummy of the pharaoh, and they were monuments.
300
How did Akhenaton try to change the way the Egyptians worshiped?
What is he replaced all gods with one god.
300
The area near a river's mouth where the water deposits fine soil.
What is delta
400
Line of rulers from the same family.
What is dynasty
400
How were hieroglyphs used?
What is they were used to keep records.
400
Why were religion and government not separate in ancient Egypt?
What is pharaohs were god-like kings.
400
Why was the government of Egypt stable under Ramses II?
What is because he ruled for over 60 years.
400
Life that takes place in another world.
What is afterlife
500
The order in which members of a royal family inherit a throne.
What is succession
500
Why were some Egyptians able to have more skillful jobs?
What is food surpluses meant that not everyone had to be a farmer.
500
What group was able to conquer Egypt during the Middle Kingdom?
What is Hyksos
500
What was unusual about the reign of Hatshepsut?
What is she was a woman and she mysteriously disappeared.
500
To preserve a body after death.
What is embalm