Ancient Egypt 1
What is the climate/biome of Egypt?
Desert
Dynasty
Who is the God of the Dead?
Osiris
Mummies were placed in these to make the journey to the afterlife - kind of like a coffin
A sarcophagus
Desert
The Nile empties into which body of water?
The Mediterranean Sea
Who was the First Pharaoh?
Narmer
What are 3 things the Nile provided for the Ancient Egyptians?"
1. Rich soil for growing food
2. Water for crops, people and animals
3. Egyptians used boats on the Nile to trade with other locations
What did the pharaohs of the Middle Kingdom build to deal with the Nile's flooding?
A canal between the Nile and the Red Sea.
What determined the social groups in ancient Egypt?
Wealth and power
What is one item Egyptians needed to trade for in order to get enough of?
Wood, Glass, Gold, Incense, Purple Dye
Most people in Egypt had what job?
Farming
How did archaeologists learn to read Hieroglyphics?
The Rosetta Stone
Ancient Egyptians believed this body part would be weighed to see if they could get into paradise
Heart
What is the word for digging ditches to bring water from the Nile to the farms?
Irrigation
The last Pharaoh ever
Cleopatra
Who was the pharaoh that united upper and lower Egypt?
Narmer
This pharaoh ruled for 66 years, had 102 kids and was a great military leader.
Ramses II
Egyptians buried spells and instructions from this book with their dead
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 _______.
Afterlife
Two archeologists found this in 1922
King Tutankhamen's tomb
What is the plant used to make a paper like material?
Papyrus reed
What is the process for how the Ancient Egyptians preserved their dead?
Mummification
What do you call the minerals deposited by flooding rivers onto the farmlands of Egypt?
Silt
This was built for Khufu, is 500 feet tall and used 2 million stone blocks.
The Great Pyramid