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Egypt Vocabulary
Mummification
Nile River Facts
Gods are my Friend
Potpourri
100
The discovery of this helped decode the hieroglyphs and unlocked the history of Egypt
What is The Rosetta Stone.
100
This is made from the flax plan and is used to wrap mummies.
What is linen.
100
The fan shaped area near the mouth of the river.
What is the delta?
100
The person at the top of the Gods.
Who is Amon Ra?
100
The ceremony that decided if you could go to the afterlife.
What was the Weighing of the Heart?
200
An oval with a name written in hieroglyphics (to identify a person when his soul returned.)
What is a cartouche
200
The first thing Egyptians did in the mummification process.
What is wash the body?
200
The direction the Nile River flows.
What is north (or south to north)
200
God of Mummification.
Who is Anubis?
200
To help the Pharaoh's climb to the afterlife.
Why were the pyramids built?
300
Egyptians used these to stand for words, sounds, or ideas.
What are hieroglyphs.
300
The entire process of mummification takes approximately this many days.
What are 70?
300
The soil near the Nile was rich and good for growing crops which meant it was...
What is fertile?
300
God of the Dead.
Who is Osiris?
300
Pharaoh for whom the first pyramid was built.
Who is Djsoer?
400
The Egyptian belief that there is life following death.
What is an afterlife.
400
The name of the substance used to absorb the moisture and dry out the mummies.
What is natron?
400
One of the many uses of the Nile.
What is transportation, trade, irrigation?
400
God of the River Nile or Inundation.
Who is Hapi?
400
If you believed in many gods or goddesses, you would be called this.
What is polytheistic
500
A huge monument to the pharaoh's greatness.
What is a pyramid?
500
Because pharaohs believed in this, they were buried with all of their favorite things.
What is an afterlife (or that they would go on a journey following their death.)
500
The season of flooding.
What is inundation?
500
The Devourer.
Who is Amut?
500
The Rosetta Stone did this.
What is unlocked the history of Egypt (because it was the single item that linked the hieroglyphic language to a language someone understood.)