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Vocabulary
Mummies
Religion
Geography
Leadership
100
A bucket on a pole.
What is a shadoof?
100
The body being preserved for the afterlife is called____________.
What is embalming?
100
Ancient Egyptians called the soul this _____________.
What is Ka?
100
Egypt is located on this continent.
What is Africa?
100
The leader of Egypt was called this.
What is Pharaoh?
200
Cliffs and valleys meet to form these rough waters. (This may also be something your Nana has wrong with her eyes.)
What are cataracts?
200
The priest who performed the mummification process wore a mask with the head of a jackal, representing this god: god of mummification and embalming.
Who is Anubis?
200
Egyptians were ______________, meaning they worshiped many gods and goddesses.
What is polytheistic?
200
The civilization of Egypt was created about _________ years before Jesus was born.
What is 3000 years?
200
Pharoah was considered not only human, but was ________.
What is also a god?
300
Symbols and pictures that represent words and sounds made this type of Egyptian writing. (Ancient texting)
What are hieroglyphics?
300
Embalming gave the world the first type of this book, which doctors use.
What is anatomy book?
300
Priests were also ______________, meaning that they performed tricks that awed and amazed.
What is magicians?
300
This is the river that the Ancient Egyptians depended on for life?
What is the Nile River?
300
This woman was the first female pharaoh, and here baby brother tried to wipe her name out of history books.
Who is Hatsheput?
400
Lets keep leadership in the family. (quack, quack)
What is a dynasty.
400
The only organ that was left in the body when it was mummified was the _______________, which was the center of thought and feeling.
What is the heart.
400
When people died, their Ka had to pass tests to enjoy ________________________.
What is the afterlife?
400
What were the natural geographical features that protected Ancient Egyptians?
What are deserts, The Mediterranean Sea, and cataracts?
400
This pharaoh who would suffer the wrath of the Ancient Israelites, or so people think.
Who is Ramses The Great?
500
Water plant used to make paper, shoes, and baskets...among other things.
What is papyrus?
500
The final step of mummification included putting on the ________________ so that the ka would recognize the body.
What is the Death Mask?
500
A Ka that can not find it's body is doomed to __________. (This is why grave robbing is so naughty.)
What is wonder the earth?
500
Lower Egypt is located ____________ of Upper Egypt. This is also the direction that the Nile River flows.
What is North?
500
The type of government the Ancient Egyptians had was called this__________________. Hint: mix of religion and politics.
What is a theocracy?