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100
The natural boundary that separated Egypt from Kush.
What is a cataract?
100
The class of people who traded the extra goods that the farmers made
What is a merchant?
100
Gods had this type of head that helped indicate what kinds of qualities the gods had.
What is an animal head?
100
The Egyptians had their heads and feet faced ___________ in paintings.
What is to the side?
100
What Egyptian writing is called.
What is a hieroglyphic?
200
The river valley of this river was where the Egyptians settled
What is the Nile?
200
"Great House" was the original meaning for this word that also means king?
Who is the pharaoh?
200
What the Egyptians believed the pharaoh was that meant that he was the head of their religion?
What is the fact that he was a god?
200
Most Egyptian art was in the form of paintings on the walls of _________.
What are tombs? (temples also acceptable)
200
The artifact used to decipher the Egyptian writing code.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
300
The reason people settled in the black land around the Nile.
What is fertile soil?
300
The name for the class that was responsible for keeping written records.
What is the scribes?
300
The person responsible for turning dead bodies into mummies.
What is an embalmer?
300
The person most Egyptian art was made to honor.
What is a pharaoh?
300
English is read from left to right. Hieroglyphics can be read_______.
What is top to bottom, bottom up, left to right or right to left?
400
A merchant trading class developed in Egypt as a result of this among farmers in the black land
What is surplus?
400
The place where the kings were buried in the New Kingdom
What is the Valley of the Kings?
400
The god of the underworld.
Who is Osiris?
400
The walls of pharaoh's tombs showed the pharaohs and the ____________ in scenes from their daily lives.
What is gods(deities)
400
The name for the Egyptian symbol that meant life.
What is the ankh?
500
Irrigation brought water to crops allowed Egyptians to have ___________ all year long.
What is fruit and vegetables?
500
Women were slightly lower than men in Egyptian society, but they could still own ______________, which was better than in most places.
What is property?
500
The major difference between the Sumerians' view of the afterlife and the Egyptians view of the afterlife was that the Sumerians thought the afterlife was ________ and the Egyptians thought it was ___________.
What is sad (gloomy, terrible, dark); and happy (good, like heaven).
500
The type of monument that is like a tall pillar, used to record the deeds of pharaohs
What is an obelisk?
500
If hieroglyphs stand for a king or queen they are ____________________________.
What is surrounded by a cartouche(oval)?