Geography
The Nile River flows in this direction.
South to north.
Calculated taxes, wrote letters, and recorded matters of historical significance.
Scribes
Responsible for building the Great Pyramid of Giza
This god was believed to have been devoured at the end of every day and reborn the next day.
Ra - god of the sun.
Egypt's "Golden Age"
Middle Kingdom
Besides the Nile River, name two bodies of water that the Ancient Egyptians accessed.
Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea
Traded such items as gold, jewelry, and rope.
Merchants
The Egyptian invention that made it easier to haul water from the Nile to the fields.
Shaduf
God of the underworld
Osirus
Time period of Egypt's most powerful rulers, such as Ramses and Hatshepsut
New Kingdom
After Egyptians stopped constructing pyramids, the location that pharaohs were buried.
Hidden tombs in the Valley of the Kings.
Appointed by pharaoh to carry out rituals, lead ceremonies, and provide advise to the people of Egypt.
Priests
Egyptian doctors became quite knowledgeable about anatomy as a result of preparations for this ritual.
Mummification
Perhaps his greatest achievement as pharaoh was restoring polytheism to the Egyptian people.
King Tut
Art, literature, trade, and building projects all flourished during this period.
Middle Kingdom
The three seasons of agriculture (don't need the Egyptian words)
Flooding, planting, harvesting
Top government official who gave advice to pharaoh.
Vizier
The reason we know hieroglyphics represents both sounds and words.
The Rosetta Stone
The reason that Egyptians were mummified and buried with jewelry and other prized possessions.
To take with them to the afterlife.
Pharaohs were buried in pyramids during this period.
Old Kingdom
Name two geographic advantages that Ancient Egypt had that helped it flourish as an early civilization.
Rich fertile soil by Nile River provided stable food supply, and natural barriers protected from invasion.
The lowest two groups of people in the social pyramid.
Farmers and servants / enslaved people
Three uses of papyrus
Food, fuels, sandals, scrolls
The living embodiment of the god Horus.
Pharaohs
Pharaohs were buried in the Valley of the Kings during this period.
New Kingdom