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Ancient Egypt Geography
Government & Religion
Architecture
Egyptians
Writing
Rosetta Stone
100
Relationship between people, landforms, climate, land, and weather
What is geography? (must name all categories)
100
Polytheistic
What type of religion did Egyptians have?
100
Sandstone, mud bricks, clay, limestone
What building materials did the Egyptians use?
100
Hieroglyphics
What was the writing system called?
100
a big rock that had writing from three languages that told the same message
What is the Rosetta stone?
200
Transportation for people, buildings, and to capture food and fish.
How did Egyptians use the Nile?
200
Leader of government, the son of the sun god, living god, religious leader, human form of Horus
Who was the pharaoh? (Must name all)
200
Domesticated animals and simple machines
How odd they get the stone to the building site?
200
Picture symbol, phonetics, no spaces, no punctuation, any direction
How did the writing system work?
200
found by a French soldier in 1799
who found the Rosetta stone?
300
Continent= Africa Country = Egypt
What continent/ modern countries are where ancient Egypt was?
300
Everything and everyone
What did the pharaoh own?
300
For pharaohs, to give the pharaoh a way to get to heaven
Why did they build pyramids/ tombs?
300
Pictures used as symbols to represent real things
What is a Pictogram?
300
1,676 pounds
How much does the Rosetta stone weigh?
400
Sandy, Sahara desert, cliffs and flat land, big delta, hot and dry.
What is the land near the Nile like?
400
Re, Horus, Isis, Osiris, Thoth, and Anubis
Who were the main gods and goddesses(six of them)?
400
Slaves
Who did the hard labor?
400
scribe
What do we call a person who writes info down in a record?
400
2 hieroglyphics and 1 greek
How many languages were on the Rosetta stone and what were the languages?
500
Upper-south part-higher land Lower- north part- lower land
What does " upper " and " lower Egypt mean?
500
To honor their gods and goddesses
How did the Egyptians use their temples?
500
Pharaoh was a god on earth, limited building material, limited technology, cheap labor, lots of time
Why did they give is much time and effort to building?
500
messages, letters, kings direction, religious messages, records
What kinds of things did the Egyptians write down?
500
in the British Museum
where is the Rosetta stone now?