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Study Guide: Ancient Egypt
Duncan Winburn
Vocabulary
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Delta – The part of a river that branches out
Cataracts – Strong rapids
Silt – rich soil and small rocks mixed together
Shaduf – an Egyptian invention that made it
easier to water plants
8. Kingdom – A civilization with a person that rules
9. Pharaoh – a person who ruled both sides of
Egypt
Vocabulary
10.Papyrus – an early kind of paper made out of
reeds
11.Pyramid – a wonder of the world that the
Egyptians built in which they buried their
pharaoh and put his belongings in the same
tomb
12.Hieroglyphics – a way of writing in Egypt
13.Mummification – a special way that the
Egyptians buried people
Vocabulary
14.Amulet – A lucky charm that the Egyptians
put around dead people’s necks
15.Embalmer – a person who embalmed dead
people
16.Book of the Dead – A book that the Egyptians
studied to learn about what would happen in
the afterlife
17.Obelisk – A big pillar with four sides that has
a pointed top
Vocabulary
18. Sphinxes – mythical creatures with a lion’s
body and a human’s head
19. Dynasty – a group of people who ruled from
the same family
20. Menes – Egypt’s first pharaoh
21. Khufu – made the first pyramids
22. Ahmose – drove out the Hyksos
Vocabulary
23. Rames II – a giant statue was made for him
24.Queen Hatshepsut – The first female pharaoh
25. Ramses the Great – A pharaoh that conquered
other places
26. King Tutankhamen – Archeologists discovered
his undisturbed tomb
27. Rosetta Stone – a stone slab with hieroglyphics
written on it
28. To Barter – to negotiate what to trade and trade
it
Short answer
1. The important regions of Egypt are Upper
Egypt and Lower Egypt. These make up
Egypt. Thebes is the capitol of all of Egypt.
2. The Greeks called Egypt “The Gift of the Nile”
because the Nile was so important
3. I think that Upper Egypt was more important
to a ruler because it had more cities.
Short answer
4. The social structure of Egypt goes like this:
The pharaoh was at the top
Nobles were below
Scribes and Craftspeople were below
Farmers, Servants and Slaves were at the bottom
5. The people thought of a pharaoh as a god, so
he got blamed for whatever went wrong
Short answer
6. The Egyptians were polytheistic, which
meant they believed in a lot of gods. They
would make sacrifices, worship them and ask
them favors
7. The Egyptians believed in the afterlife
because they believed in people’s spirits
Short answer
8. The mummification process goes like this:
They open the dead person and take out all of the
organs except the heart and the brain
The heart is left in to keep for the afterlife for weighing
They couldn’t figure out what the brain was for, so they
pulled it out through the dead persons nose and
threw the brain away
They then placed a lucky charm around the person’s
neck, wrapped the body in bandage, put in a
sarcophagus and buried it in a pyramid or tomb
Short answer
9. Pyramids were important because that was
where all of the dead people were buried.
They stopped building them because robbers
kept stealing the dead person’s treasures
10.The type of writing Egyptians used was called
hieroglyphics
Short answer
11.Three Egyptian Innovations:
1. They invented burial tombs, which people still
use
2. They had kings and queens, which people still
used later on
3. They invented the first kinds of clocks, which
people renovated later on
Short answer
12. In the Old Kingdom, the Egyptians
invented mummification. In the Middle
Kingdom, the Egyptians were ruled by Queen
Hatshepsut. She was the first female
pharaoh. In the New Kingdom, the Egyptians
were ruled by Ramses the Great. He
conquered other countries and expanded his
kingdom.