Key
Vocabulary
Glorious Nile
Fabulous Pharaohs
Awesome Empires
Remarkable
Religion
Writing The
PyramidsPotpourri
100
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200 200 200 200 200 200 200
300 300300 300 300300 300
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200
300
400
Skilled workers who practice a handicraft
Artisans
100
The Nile Delta can be found in this part of Egypt
Lower Egypt
100
Egypt’s first pharaoh, he united Upper and Lower
Egypt
Narmer
100
Ancient Egypt’s most important God, the Sun God
Amon-Re
100
The Egyptian form of writing
hieroglyphics
100
The reason the Egyptians build pyramids
To protect the bodies of the pharaohs
100
Historians divided Egyptian history into these periods.
Kingdoms
100
The study of the structure of the body and its organs
anatomy
200
These made the Nile difficult to navigate in
Upper Egypt.
cataracts
200
This warrior pharoah built many monuments during his
reign
Ramses II
200
This is why the Egyptians mummified their dead
To preserve their bodies for the afterlife
200
These officials were highly respected because they
could read and write.
scribes
200
The time period the pyramids were built
The Old Kingdom
200
The Egyptians developed this science, which allowed them to make glass and cosmetics.
Chemistry
200
Worshipping Osiris, Isis, and Horus made the
Egyptians this
Polytheistic
300
This made the Nile delta so valuable
It was very fertile farmland
300
Hatshepsut built Egypt’s wealth through this
trade
300
The Egyptians often pictured their gods with these
Animal heads
300
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This reed plant was light and easy to write on
Papyrus
300
Imhotep
300
The architect who designed the first
pyramids
Geometry
300
The Egyptians were very skilled in this type of
mathematics
The pharaoh relied on this multi-layered system to help
him run the government
A Bureaucracy
400
Egyptians called their country this which means “the Black Land.
Kemet
400
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The time period when both Hatshepsut and Ramses II ruled
The New Kingdom
400
Pharaohs are believed to be this god on Earth
Horus
400
This book is a guide to the afterlife for dead souls
The Book of the Dead
400
The building of the pyramids show the Egyptians expertise
at these 2 things
400
Mathematics and advanced building techniques
Egyptians developed these two types of calendars
Lunar and Solar
400
Through this (the buying and selling of goods and
services) Egyptians obtained needed items
commerce
100
A pharaoh dies and his son becomes the new
pharaoh. This is an example of a.
dynasty
200
The high point of Egyptian power and prosperity
The New Kingdom
300
The main effect trading with Egypt had on Nubia
Nubia adopted many elements of Egyptian culture
400