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  • What is a Delta?
    A triangular piece of land which is found at the mouth of a river
  • What is Egyptian writing called?
    Hieroglyphic
  • What was the most common form of religious practice in Ancient Egypt?
    Polytheism
  • The Rosetta Stone allowed to....
    Translate hieroglyphics
  • What didi Ma`at had on her head?
    a feather
  • Who was the first Egyptian pharaoh?
    Menes or Narmer
  • What is a necropolis ?
    City of the dead.
  • What were the names of the two Egyptian kingdoms, before they were combined?
    Upper Egypt and lower Egypt
  • The pharaoh’s job was to keep the land in ma’at. What does it mean?
    Truth, Balance, Order, Justice.
  • How did Egyptians irrigate crops during the dry season?
    By digging canals and with the shaduff
  • What is the Rosetta Stone?
    A stone with inscriptions in three languages
  • The river Nile flows from: South to north or North to south?
    South to north
  • What is a Sphinx?
    A big monument with human head and lion body.
  • What was the Egyptian word for "king"?
    Pharaoh
  • A reed plant that grew along Egypt's river that was used for making clothes, shoes, and a substance similar to paper.
    Papyrus
  • Egypt is located on the continent of
    Africa
  • Where were the richest farming areas in Egypt found?
    In the Delta
  • What is KEMET?
    The black land which is green on the top.
  • Where there a sale market for slaves? Where did they get them from?
    No, war prisioners
  • What type of government Egypt had?
    Theocratic monarchy
  • What is Deification?
    This word explaines that the pharaohs became god.
  • Why did the life of the people in Egypt depend on the Nile? Suggest reasons for this.
    Everything happens along the Nile: a main road, crops were planets along it, water for irrigation, floods, minerals
  • What did the Vizier do?
    Was pharaoh ´s chief advisor
  • What did the scribes do?
    The could read and write. They recorded things such as numbers of soldiers, workers, number of food etc.
  • Name an Egyptian primary source
    Narmer pallet
  • Why was the Rosetta Stone an important discovery?
    It allowed to decode, decipher hieroglyphics
  • What were the craftsmen?
    Skill workers such as pottery makers, leather workers, sculptors etc.
  • What were pyramids?
    tombs for pharaohs
  • What did the red crown represent?
    Lower Egypt
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