Geography
This river’s predictable floods made farming in Egypt possible.
What is the Nile River?
Egyptians believed in many gods, a belief system known as this.
What is polytheism?
This process preserved the body so the soul could survive.
What is mummification?
This picture-based system was used for writing.
What are hieroglyphics?
Of the two civilizations, this one lasted longer.
What is Egypt?
These two natural features on Egypt’s borders helped protect it from invaders.
What are deserts and seas?
This was the spiritual life-force that needed the body to be preserved after death.
What is the Ka?
These massive stone tombs were built for Pharaohs during the Old Kingdom.
What are pyramids?
This early form of paper was made from reeds along the Nile.
What is papyrus?
Mesopotamia was easier to invade than Egypt because it lacked these natural defenses.
What are deserts, oceans and cataracts.
These rocky rapids on the Nile slowed travel but gave Egypt extra protection.
What are cataracts?
In the afterlife, Egyptians believed the heart was weighted on this before it could live forever.
What is judgment from scales?
This Pharaoh’s tomb was discovered with treasures that gave us insight into Egyptian beliefs.
Who is King Tutankhamun (King Tut)?
This subject was used to measure farmland and design pyramids.
What is geometry?
These two rivers supported Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
This region of Egypt was in the south, while its opposite was in the north.
What is Upper Egypt?
These items with Pharaohs to be used in the next life.
What are food, treasure and games
The discoveries in tombs showed Egyptians believed this about the afterlife.
What is that life was just a test for the afterlife.
Egyptians were advanced in this field, using honey and herbs as treatments.
What is medicine.
This is the main reason the Nile was more reliable than the Tigris and Euphrates.
What is predictable flooding
Unlike the unpredictable Tigris and Euphrates, the Nile flooded in this way, giving Egypt stability.
What is a regular and predictable cycle?
While Mesopotamians saw the afterlife as dark and hopeless, Egyptians saw it as this.
What is an eternal paradise if judged worthy?
The practice of preserving the body connected religion with this area of Egyptian knowledge.
What is medicine or science?
This tall stone monument inspired structures like the Washington Monument in the U.S.
What is an obelisk?
Give two reasons Egypt was more stable than Mesopotamia
What are natural defenses and a steady food supply from the Nile?