Geography
The longest river in the world that is located in Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
This rich soil was the result of flooding on the Nile River.
What is silt?
These irrigation tools consisted of buckets attached to poles that scooped water out of the Nile River.
What are shadufs?
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
This king was the first king to unite Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Narmer or Menes?
This part of Egypt contains the Nile Delta where the Nile River empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Lower Egypt?
These rock formations created waterfalls and obstacles on the Nile River.
What are cataracts?
This is the process that Egyptians used to preserve dead bodies.
What is embalming?
Professional writers who transcribed hieroglyphics onto papyrus.
What are scribes?
Narmer married a princess from this part of Egypt to unite Egypt.
What is Lower Egypt?
This part of Egypt lies in the southern region of Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
This thin, long reed grew along the Nile River.
What is papyrus?
This type of writing was created by the early Egyptians.
What are hieroglyphics?
The type of government when the king is the political and religious leader.
What is a theocracy?
When the kingdom is passed down from father to son, this type of government is created.
What is a dynasty?
This desert lies to the east of Egypt.
What is the Eastern Desert?
This is the fan shaped formation of tributaries that led waters from the Nile to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is a delta?
Dead bodies wrapped in linen.
What are mummies?
Chief officials who aided the pharaoh.
What are viziers?
From 3100 BC to 332 BC, this is the number of dynasties that ruled.
What is thirty?
The Libyan Desert is part of this larger desert that lies to the west of Egypt.
What is the Sahara Desert?
These dry areas surrounded Egypt on its eastern and western borders.
What are deserts?
Monumental tombs built to house the dead bodies of pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
Death mask worn by a pharaoh.
What is a sarcophagus?
Between the Middle Kingdom and the New Kingdom, this group of foreigners conquered Egypt.
Who are the Hyksos?