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The Egyptian's ____________ was divided into three seasons, translated as Flooding, Harvest, and Planting.
What is a calendar?
This was an oval shaped object with a name written in the middle in hieroglyphics.
What is a cartouche?
This was the process of taking a corpse, emptying all of their insides into canopic jars and preparing them for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
This was the highest social class.
What was Pharaoh and the royal family?
This was a line of ruler or kings who were all in the same family.
What is a dynasty?
These were special containers that contained dead body organs.
What are canopic jars?
This was was determined someone's social class.
What is their wealth?
Measuring floodwaters and calculating taxes were used by this.
What is nilometer?
This provided protection from invaders in Egypt.
What is the Sahara Desert?
These were what Egyptians believed they would be judged off of, contrary to Jesus who said that humans would be judged based off of their relationship with Jesus (Himself).
What are works?
This was who was in the second lowest social class.
Who are priests, soldiers, scribes, and artisans?
This nickname for Egypt means "well-fed" or "happy."
What is hapi?
This was the name of the Egyptian stone coffin.
What is a sarcophagus?
These were worn to protect again evil spirits.
What are amulets?
This was who was in the lowest social class.
Who are farmers, slaves, merchants, and servants?
This fun word transfers water from the Nile for irrigation purposes by using a weight on the opposite side of a bucket.
What is a shadoof?
He was considered the greatest Egyptian warrior king.
Who is Rameses II?
These were the two natural, geographic features that protected against invaders for Egypt.
What are the Nile River and Sahara desert?
This was who was in the second highest social class.
Who are Pharaoh's generals, viziers, and nobles.
This was the first woman ruler of Egypt.
Who is Hatshepsut?
He was the fist person to translate a portion of hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone.
Who is Jean-Francois Champollion?
This is where Khufu built the Great Pyramid.
What is in the valley of Giza?
This Greek letter refers to a fan shaped fertile area.
What is delta?