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Mummification
Pharaohs
Potpourri
100
ancient Egyptian system of writing and communication
What are hieroglyphics?
100
the sun god
Who is RA?
100
Part of the body that was considered useless and discarded
What is the brain?
100
Child pharaoh ruling at the age of 9
Who is Tutankamun?
100
a writer who kept records and official documents; did not have to work on the pyramids
What is a scribe?
200
plant that grew along the Nile used to make paper
What is papyrus?
200
united upper and lower Egypt
Who is Menes?
200
specific containers that held the embalmed organs
What are canopic jars?
200
Changed Egypt from a polytheistic society to a monotheistic society
Who is Ahkenaten?
200
two biggest geographical features of Egypt
What are the desert and the Nile River?
300
triangle shaped land filled with silt located at the mouth of a river
What is a delta?
300
Translated the Rosetta Stone and broke the hieroglyphic code
Who is Jean Champollion?
300
lungs, liver, stomach, intestines
What is the viscera?
300
last reigning pharaoh
Who is Cleopatra?
300
the direction the Nile River flows
What is south to north?
400
farmers measured the height of the Nile flooding using these steps
What is a Nilometer?
400
First known architect
Who is Imhotep?
400
sign put on a tomb with the person's name on it
What is a cartouche?
400
First female pharaoh; aunt of Thutmose III
Who is Queen Hatshepsut?
400
jackal headed god of embalming
Who is Anubis?
500
the very first pyramids with a flat top
What are mastabas?
500
Discovered King Tut's tomb
Who is Howard Carter?
500
to determine if the person was going to the afterlife, the heart was put on one side of a scale and the other side held the....
What is the feather of Ma at--the feather of truth?
500
erased all evidence of Queen Hatshepsut from Egypt and replaced everything with statues of himself
Who is Ramses II?
500
the Great Pyramid was built for him
Who is Pharaoh Khufu?