Geography
What is the Nile River?
This vocab term describes the religious beliefs of ancient Egyptians.
What is Polytheism?
A writing system developed by ancient Egyptians
What are hieroglyphs?
What is a Pharaoh?
they made up the majority of the population in ancient Egypt
What are farmers?
This is the northern region of Egypt.
What is Lower Egypt?
The high priest of all temples
Who is the Pharaoh?
This was developed and used by Egyptians to determine when to plant and harvest their crops.
What is the Egyptian (3-season) calendar?
Who is King Tut?
They "sat" at the top of the social hierarchy.
Who is the Pharaoh?
This is the southern region of Egypt
What is Upper Egypt?
Egyptians believed the Pharaoh was also this Egyptian God.
Who is Horus?
One of the most important artifacts found because it helped to finally decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This was the Pharaohs final resting place.
What are the Pyramids?
How people got goods that they couldn't make or produce themselves.
What is trade?
This geographic feature protected Egypt on the east and west from invaders.
What are deserts?
The Egyptian God of the Underworld
The main material used to built the pyramids
What is limestone?
A government whose leader is led by gods/goddesses or is believed to be a deity themselves.
What is a theocracy?
People who made jewelry, pottery, and other goods.
What are artisans/craftspeople?
Where the Nile River empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile Delta?
What is the afterlife?
Ancient Egyptians developed math to make a calendar and built pyramids by doing this.
What is "follow/study the stars"?
a series of rulers who each gain their power from their father or other male family member before them.
What is a dynasty?
The region where the most trade was done in ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile Delta?