Vocabulary
These water rapids made it hard to navigate and transport goods on the Nile.
What are cataracts?
He was the sun god.
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This is the Egyptian writing system.
What is hieroglyphics?
He discovered King Tutkenhamen's tomb in 1922.
Who is Howard Carter?
The two main territories of Egypt that were unified under Menes.
What are upper and lower Egypt?
He is considered Egypt's 1st pharoah.
Who is Menes?
These water rapids created a natural barrier against invasions from the south.
What are cataracts?
She was the moon and magic goddess.
Who is Isis?
These writers of ancient Egyptian were so respected that they didn’t have to pay taxes.
What are scribes?
This is why Tombs were sealed off.
What is to prevent tomb theft by raiders?
This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
He was the most famous Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Who was Khufu?
This is the mythical creature with the head of a human and body of a lion.
What is a sphinx?
He was the Egyptian god of wisdom.
Who is Thoth?
This is the plant based paper Anc. Egyptains wrote on.
What is the papyrus?
This is the process of preserving a body for the after life in Anc. E
What is mummification?
This was the capital city of Ancient Egypt for a long time.
What is Memphis?
This pharaoh is best remembered for being a great warrior & builder.
Who was Ramses the Great?
These are people of wealth and power. It starts with an "e".
What are the elite?
He was the god of the underworld.
Who is Osiris?
This key to the decoding of the Anc. Egyptain language.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
A temples spirit is known by this 2 letter word.
What is me?
This body of water separates Europe from Africa.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
He drove the Hyksos out of Egypt to begin the New Kingdom.
Who was Ahmose of Thebes?
This is a series of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
These people at the top of the Egyptain Social Hierarchy were also considered gods.
Who are pharoahs?
Egyptians' knowledge of these building and construction principles helped them to build the pyramids.
What is engineering?
Tombs were filled with art jewelry and other treasures because of ancient Egyptians belief in this.
What is the Afterlife?
This is a triangle shape of land at the base of a river.
What is a delta?
She dressed as a man and is known for exampanding trade and for her support of arts & architecture.
Who was Hapshepsut?
The city to the south that eventually invades Egypt.
What is Kush?
This god became the mummification processer.
Who was Anubis?
These are 4 sided figures with a needle or point at the top.
What is an obelisk?
The size and shape of the pyramids showed this about the pharaoh buried inside.
What is how important that pharaoh was ?
This is the peninsula that sits directly east of the Red Sea.
What is the Sinai Peninsula?
He is said to have worn a double crown b/c he united Upper & Lower Egypt.
Who is Memes?