2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt Geography Religion Mummification & Pyramids PharaohsCulture

This river is the longest in the world.

What is the Nile River?

This is the reason why the Nile is unique.

The Nile river flows south to north.

What is a cataract?

A type of waterfall found in Egypt.

Name two reasons why the Nile River was so important to Egyptian culture.

-silt (fertile soil) -transportation -bathing and drinking water

Egypt was called this by HERODOTUS, a Greek historian.

“The Gift of the Nile”

This is the belief in multiple gods.

What is polytheism?

Egyptians believed that pharaohs were a child of this god.

What is the sun- god, Ra.

Egyptian gods were often pictured as this.

What is an animal?

Egyptians believed in this, which is where dead pharaohs went.

What is the afterlife?

This is the book that was placed in tombs with pharaohs to ensure they were prepared for the afterlife.

What is the Book of the Dead?

Egyptians mummified pharaohs for this reason.

-to prepare their soul (and body) for the after life

During the mummification process, internal organs were stored in this.

What are canopic jars?

These are used as burial places for dead pharaohs.

What are pyramids?

This is the era that the Valley of the Kings begun.

What is the New Kingdom?

This type of pyramid had a shape that suggests a giant stairway for the king’s spirit to join the sun god.

What is a step pyramid?

This was the first pharaoh of Egypt who unified Upper and Lower Egypt.

Who is King Menes?

This is the boy king whose burial ground was found by Howard Carter.

Who was Tutankhamen?

What was significant about Akhenaton and the worshipping of gods?

This pharaoh wanted his people to worship only the sun god.

This is the ruler who reunited Egypt after a time of great confusion.

Who is Ramses II?

Name both female pharaohs that were popular in Egypt.

Who is Hatshepsut and Cleopatra?

This was discovered in 1799 that made it possible to translate hieroglyphics.

What is the Rosetta Stone?

Farmers, slaves, and laborers were located at which level of the social pyramid?

What is the lowest level?

Name the three sections of the Rosetta Stone.

1.Hieroglyphics 2. Demotic 3. Greek

Seasonal flooding of the Nile made if possible for Egyptians to do this.

What is grow crops?

This is the name of the period when seasonal flooding occurred.

What is inundation?