| Question |
Answer |
| River that runs through Egypt that civilization was centered around. |
Nile |
| Person who united Ancient Egypt. |
King Menes |
| Structure that was used as tombs for pharaohs. |
Pyramids |
| Another name for an Egyptian king. |
Pharaoh |
| A government that has a religious leader or a god ruling. |
Theocracy |
| People who invaded Egypt and ruled for 100 years. They introduced the horse drawn chariot to the Egyptian people. |
Hyksos |
| First female pharaoh of Egypt that preferred to dress like a man. |
Hatshepsut |
| Pharaoh who tried to change Egypt from polytheistic to monotheistic. He wanted Egyptians to only worship Aten. |
Akenhaten |
| The tomb of this pharaoh was discovered in 1922. |
King Tut aka Tutankhamen |
| Man who discovered King Tut's tomb in 1922. |
Howard Carter |
| Pharaoh that reigned for over 60 years. He was known for his great building projects and for signing the first peace treaty. Believed to be the pharaoh Moses fled from. |
Ramses the Great |
| The last pharaoh of Egypt |
Cleopatra VII |
| Also known as the soul, Egyptians believed that this spirit would reunite with the body in the afterlife. |
Ka |
| The process of slowly drying a dead body. Used to preserve the body for the afterlife. |
Mummification |
| Large structure that has the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh. Believed to be a guardian of the pyramids in the Valley of the Kings. |
Great Sphinx |
| Egyptian forms of writing |
Hieroglyphics |
| This plant was used for making Egyptian paper. |
Papyrus |
| This was used to decode Egyptian hieroglyphics |
Rosetta Stone |
| The pyramids were built by_________. |
Egyptian farmers |
| Egyptians believed that their pharaoh was a ________. |
god |
| Egyptians had a number system based on ____. |
10 |
| This organ was left in the body of mummies to be weighed by Anubis. |
Heart |
| Who was the god of the afterlife? |
Anubis |
| Who was the god of death and rebirth? |
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| The Egyptian calendar had _______ days. |
365 |
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