Ancient Egypt Facts
The continent where Ancient Egypt was located
What is Africa?
A system with a powerful person on top, and many workers on the bottom
What is a hierarchy or social pyramid?
Egyptian gods
What is Half human /Half animal?
Mummies were placed in these to make the journey to the afterlife.
What is tomb?
Geographical feature of Egypt as you move away from the Nile
What is a desert?
The river besides which the ancient Egyptians lived
What is the Mighty Nile?
This word means king
What is ¨Pharaoh¨?
Things the Nile provided (3)
What are: 1) Rich soil for growing food
2. Water for crops, people and animals
3. A means to trade with other locations via boat?
What the pharaohs of the Middle Kingdom build to deal with the Nile's flooding
What is canal between the Nile and the Red Sea?
Part of Africa that Egypt is located in
What is northeast?
A giant statue that has the body of a lion and the head of a human.
What is the Sphinx?
What did the Egyptian economy center around?
Farming and Fishing
The Ancient Egyptian form of writing
What are Hieroglyphics?
Ancient Egyptians believed this body part would be weighed to see if they could get into paradise
What is the heart>
Ditches to bring water from the Nile to the farms
What is irrigation?
The female pharaoh, not warlike
Who is Hatshepsut?
Two parts of Ancient Egypt
What is upper & lower?
The pharoh that ruled for 66 years!
Who is Ramses II?
The book of spells and instruction that Egyptians buried with their dead
What is the Book of the Dead?
Mummification, the pyramids (tombs), and the Book of the Dead all show the importance of the ancient Egyptians' belief in the _______.
What is the Afterlife?
Two archeologists found this in 1922
King Tutankhamen's tomb
Plant used to make a paper like material?
What is Papyrus?
The process of preserving the dead
What is Mummification ?
Capital of Egypt
What is Cairo?
This was built for Khufu, is 500 feet tall and used 2 million stone blocks.
What is The Great Pyramid, Giza?