Geography
What geographical feature lead to Egypt being divided into Upper and Lower Egypt
What is the flow of the Nile River?
This factor determined an individuals social class in Ancient Egypt.
What is occupation (jobs)?
Built in Ancient Egypt to serve as the tombs of pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
A line of rulers from one family
What is a dynasty?
Believing and worshiping more than one god.
What is polytheism?
A triangle-shaped area of land made of soil deposited by a river.
What is a delta?
The lowest social class in Ancient Egypt.
What are the slaves?
Developed to control flooding and water crops.
What is irrigation?
The name for a ruler of Ancient Egypt.
What is a pharoah?
A mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion. The Egyptians built massive, complex structures of them to honor pharaohs.
What is a sphinx?
This desert provided a natural border to Ancient Egypt.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Provided food for all classes, including the slaves.
What are the farmers?
The Egyptians created this to help record and predict growing seasons.
What is the calendar?
The ruler best known for expanding the territory in Ancient Egypt through military conquests.
Who is Ramses the Great?
The process performed to provide the pharaoh with a proper afterlife.
What is mummification?
The geographic feature on the northern COAST of ancient Egypt?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The top of the social structure.
What is the Pharaoh?
A long lasting, paper-like material made from reeds
What is papyrus?
Archeologists found over 5,000 objects in his tomb that increased the historical understanding of Egypt.
Who is King Tut?
Focusing on "life after death". Making the process of mummification necessary.
What is the "afterlife"?
This civilization in Africa was rich in gold and developed just south of Egypt.
What is the Kush?
Acted as an advisor and carried out the orders of the Pharaoh.
What are the government officials?
Egyptian form of writing.
What is hieroglyphics?
She is known for helping Ancient Egypt expand its borders.
Who is Queen Hatshepsut?
Name TWO characteristics of Ancient Egyptians religion.
Acceptable Answers: polytheistic, gods with human-like half-animal forms, rulers with godlike qualities, gods gave power to the pharaoh