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Ancient Egypt Unit Test Review: VOCABULARY

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  • Dead bodies wrapped in cloth
    Mummies
  • Steep rapids along a river
    ziggurat
    cataract
  • A person's life soul
    Ka
    Cuneiform
  • EXports sent goods...
    OUT
    IN
  • Statues of imaginary creatures with the head of a person and the body of a lion
    Pharaohs
    Pyramids
    Sphinxes
  • a tall stone column with four sloping sides and a pointed top, made in honor of an important person or event
    Sphinx
    Obelisk
  • The most famous Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom who built the Great Pyramid at Giza
    Caesar
    Cleopatra
    Khufu
    Ptolemy
  • A ruler of Ancient Egypt who is considered part God is a ...
    Hercules
    King
    Queen
    Pharaoh
  • His tomb was discovered in 1922
    Ptolemy
    King Tut
  • Triangle shaped area of soil deposited by a river
    Theta
    Delta
    Sigma
  • a large stone tablet with inscriptions in three different writing systems that helped scholars learn to read Egyptian hieroglyphics
    Rosetta Stone
  • A series of rulers from the same family is a ...
    empire
    dynasty
    kingdom
    monarchy
  • Someone who greatly EXPANDED, or increased, trade. No wars
    King Tut
    Cleopatra
    Queen Hatshepsut
  • A group of similar things, people, or events that happen one after another, following a sequence or order is a ...
    SIRI
    MAGIC
    THRONE
    SERIES
  • credited with reuniting Egypt, thus ending the turbulent First Intermediate Period and becoming the first pharaoh of the Middle Kingdom
    Mentuhotep
    King Tut
    Obelisk
    Cleopatra
  • This was central to the Egyptian religion (Hint: REincarnation)
    fancy clothing
    jobs
    afterlife
  • Royal tombs with 4 triangle shaped sides
    Pyramids
    Victory Gardens
    Skyscrapers
    Ziggurats
  • IMports brought goods...
    IN
    OUT
  • Writing system created by ancient Egyptians
    Cuneiform
    Hieroglyphics
  • Great warrior and builder
    Ramses the Great
    King Tut