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Vocabulary
Life in Egypt
Egyptian Records
Pyramids, Tombs and Other Things
Random Thoughts
100
To unite.
What is unify?
100
This person is said to have united upper and lower Egypt.
Who is King Menes?
100
This is a form of picture writing.
What are hieroglyphs?
100
Huge structures made of stone.
What are pyramids?
100
This needed to happen in order to set forth dynasty rule.
What is the unification of upper and lower Egypt?
200
A valuable crop use to make paper.
What is papyrus?
200
A god king.
What is a Pharaoh?
200
Archaeologists found this artifact that was then used to decipher hieroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
200
King Zoser was the first one to build this type of pyramid as a tomb.
What is a Step Pyramid?
200
Ruling dynasties lead to the expansion of the empire and this for it's people.
What is stability and wealth?
300
A preserved body.
What is a mummy?
300
This is the sun god.
Who is Amon-Ra?
300
These people were given the job to record information using hieroglyphs.
What are scribes?
300
This pharaoh had a tomb and he died at the age of 19.
Who is pharaoh Tutankhamen?
300
Egyptians believed that this would happen after they died.
What is being judged on their good deeds to determine how they would spend their afterlife?
400
A triangular shaped area of soil at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
400
The three separate dynasties or kingdoms.
What are the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom.
400
There are around this many signs or pictures used to represent sounds, words or phrases in hieroglyphic writing.
What is around 700?
400
Pyramids weren't the only places where the dead were buried. Here are two other places they were buried.
What are monuments like the Sphinx and group tombs similar to the Valley of the Kings.
400
This was placed on the body after the mummification process.
What is a death mask?
500
The way people use an manage their resources.
What is economy?
500
Egypt gets little rain, but they can still grow crops. How does this happen?
What is the flooding of the Nile river depositing silt for fertile soil?
500
What were the three languages found on the Rosetta Stone?
What are Greek, Hieroglyphs and demotic hieroglyphs?
500
The pyramid of Giza is considered one of the largest pyramids which was built by this man.
Who is Pharaoh Khufu?
500
The Nile river flows into this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?