1. Map word bank Mediterranean Sea Nile Delta Nile River Red Seac
Mediterranean Sea
Nile Delta
Nile River
Red Sea
Upper Egypt
Lower Egypt
Sahara F g d e

2. Ra Question 1 Identify this god:
he is the god of the sun and has the head of a hawk. Ra

3. Osiris Question 2 Identify this god:
he is the god of the underworld and is married to his sister.
Osiris

4. Hapi Question 3 Identify this god:
he is the god of the Nile and its annual flooding.
Hapi

5. Isis Question 4 Identify this goddess: she is the protector
and considered mother of the pharaohs. She is married to her brother.
Isis

6. Thoth Question 5 Identify this god:
he is the god of knowledge and wisdom.
Thoth

7. Question 6
Which geographic feature is located at a?
Mediterannean Sea

8. Question 7
Which geographic feature is located at b?
Nile Delta

9. Question 8
Which geographic feature is located at c?
Lower Egypt

10. Question 9
Which geographic feature is located at d?
Sahara

11. Question 10
Which geographic feature is located at e?
Upper Egypt

12. Question 11
Which geographic feature is located at f?
Nile

13. Question 12
Which geographic feature is located at g?
Red Sea

14. Question 13
What is the name of the people who spent 12 years learning how to write Egyptian hieroglyphics?
Scribes

15. Question 14
Who was at the top of the Egyptian social pyramid?
Pharaoh

16. Farmers/Slaves Question 15
Who was the largest class of people in ancient Egypt?
Farmers/Slaves

17. Question 16
A line of rulers who all come from a single family is called a _______.
dynasty

18. Question 17
A _______ was used to move water from the Nile into large basins.
shadoof

19. Question 18
The pharaoh used ___________ to help him rule Ancient Egypt.
bureaucrats

20. Question 19
Egypt was a _________, or a government in which the political leaders are also religious leaders.
theocracy

21. Question 20
Mummification is the process of _________ a dead body in order to preserve it.
embalming

22. Question 21
Egyptians believed their pharaoh was half human and half ___.
god

23. Question 22
True or false: Ancient Egyptians believed they needed their body in the afterlife.
True

24. Pharaohs and rich nobles
Question 23
Who in ancient Egypt would be embalmed?
Pharaohs and rich nobles

25. Pyramids and underground chambers
Question 24
What were the two different types of tombs pharaohs could be buried in?
Pyramids and underground chambers

26. Question 25
The discovery of the Rosetta stone allowed scientists to finally translate hieroglyphics. This resulted in the discovery of who’s tomb?
King Tut

27. Egypt’s social hierarchy
Fill in your social pyramid with the jobs that belong in each rank.
Create a small illustration for each rank to help you remember the job(s) it includes.
Complete the questions on the back of the sheet using your textbook pages in the “How people lived” section.
Place in the Notes section of your binder!

28. Making a mummy
The Egyptians believed that you needed your body for the next life, so they perfected the art of embalming
Only the pharaohs and the richest nobles could afford to be mummified when they died.

29. Making a mummy
In the early part of Egypt, pharaohs were buried in pyramids. Toward the middle and end of the Egyptian civilization, pharaohs were buried in underground chambers in the valley of the kings.