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Vocab 1
Pharaohs
Gods/Vocab
Vocab 2
Egyptian Facts
100
A guide to afterlife for dead souls
What is Book of the Dead
100
Had herself crowned pharaoh
Who is Hatshepsut
100
Egyptian Sun god
Who is Amon-Re
100
Deserts that lay on either side of the Black Land-hot, burning sands
What is Red Land
100
Paintings were on the walls of pyramids because
What is they wanted the person buried in the tomb to have the objects and pleasures shown on the walls
200
Egyptian Sun God
What is Amon-Re
200
United Upper and Lower Egypt, also known as Menes
Who is Narmer
200
Egyptian god of the Underworld
Who is Osiris
200
Egyptian Calendar predicting when the Nile was going to flood each year
What is the star of Sirius
200
What did Nubian rulers learn from earlier Pharaohs?
What is how to trade with lands on the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
300
Fertile land on the banks of the Nile, named because of the silt left on the fertile soil
What is Black Land
300
Ruled Egypt after Hatshepsust. Led his army against the Hittites, he was a great builder
Who is Ramses II
300
group of rocky rapids (waterfalls)
What is cataracts
300
Officials who knew how to write hieroglyphics were called
What is scribes
300
Egyptians preserved the bodies after death so
What is it would be a home for the person's spirit after death
400
It kept track of the Nile flood schedule to plan the farming. Using the stars they calculated the solar year to be 365 days
What is the Egyptian calendar
400
Name two great rulers
Who are Hatshesput and Ramses II
400
King of ancient Egypt
What is a pharaoh
400
People of the Middle Kingdom handled the Nile's flooding by
What is building a system of canals that could drain dangerous flood waters and irrigate new farmland.
400
To construct the pyramids the Egyptians needed knowledge in
What is Mathematics and Engineering.
500
Received very little rainfall, developed an alphabet writing system and major iron working industry
What is Nubia
500
A structure with triangular sides.
What is a Pyramid
500
a body that has been preserved so it will not decompose
What is a Mummy
500
Cataracts affected the Nubia because they
What is made it impossible to travel by boat in Nubia, they had to travel on foot through the desert.