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Geography
Vocabulary
Life in Egypt
Afterlife
Just the Facts
100
The river that Ancient Egyptians relied on for survival.
What is the Nile River?
100
Pharoah
What is the king of Egypt?
100
Egyptians believed that Pharaoh was the son of which god?
What is the sun god (Ra/Re)?
100
The reason they carved small holes from the burial chamber to the outside in pyramids.
So the Pharaoh's spirit could escape.
100
Who was at the top of the social pyramid.
Pharaoh
200
The fan-shaped piece of land near the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile Delta?
200
Shadoof
What is a bucket attached to a long pole used to transfer river water to storage basins?
200
The two events that happened when King Tut's tomb was discovered that gave it the name "The Curse of King Tut."
What is a blackout and mysterious deaths of the people present at the tomb opening?
200
The fabric that mummies were wrapped in to help preserve their bodies.
What is linen?
200
What was the purpose of the pyramids?
To serve as burial tombs for the Egyptian Pharaohs
300
A body of water so full of salt that you can float in it.
What is the Dead Sea?
300
Papyrus
What is a reed plant that grew wild along the Nile?
300
The reason the Pharaoh was buried with lots of riches and belongings.
He could keep his belongings in the afterlife.
300
What did the mummifiers do with the organs of the corpse?
They put them in jars that were buried with the body.
300
The modern day capital of Egypt is ...
Cairo
400
One of the two ways that Egypt was protected from invaders.
What is being isolated by the desert OR the cataracts blocking enemy ships?
400
Cataracts
What is a waterfall or rapid in a river?
400
The first part of the body that the Egyptians would remove when embalming a body.
What is the brain?
400
What is the name of the special coffin that held mummies.
What is a sarcophagus?
400
The last Pharaoh of Egypt was named...
Cleopatra
500
The reason Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt united.
What is the marriage of King Narmer to a lower Egyptian princess?
500
Embalming
What is the process of treating a body to keep it from decaying?
500
How they shrank and preserved the body before burial.
What is covering the body with a special salt?
500
The name of the special salt used in making mummies.
What is natron?
500
The first engineer of pyramids was named ....
Imhotep