Review: The Nile River & Life in Ancient Egypt
Across
- 7. Nickname-->"______ of Egypt" Nile is essential to daily life.
- 10. The king that united Upper and Lower Egypt, creating Egypt's first dynasty
- 11. location of the largest pyramid in Egypt
- 14. A government in which the same person is both the political and religious leader.
- 16. managed the temples and performed religious ceremonies
- 17. both men and women wore jewelry and ____
- 18. the name means "great house",supreme ruler
- 19. The Egyptian word for fertile,"black land"
- 22. the fabric used by Egyptians to make clothing
- 23. Egyptian irrigation tool--bucket attached to a long pole
- 24. god that ruled over the underworld
- 26. The flooding of the Nile was _______--it flooded at a consistent time from year to year.
- 28. these were removed from the body and placed in special jars during embalming
- 29. The Great Pyramid at Giza was built for this pharaoh.
- 32. a wrapped and embalmed body
- 33. the process of preparing a body for the afterlife
- 34. a pharaoh's tomb
- 35. Most Egyptians lived on a diet of bread, vegetables and _____.
- 36. sun god
- 37. the type of workers that made up Egypt's lowest social class
Down
- 1. river god
- 2. Egyptians studied its spells and prayers to prepare for the afterlife
- 3. people captured in war; could earn their freedom over time
- 4. the kind of salt Egyptians used to dry up the body
- 5. families often gathered here to socialize, play games, and sleep
- 6. dangerous, fast-moving water
- 8. the most important group in ancient Egyptian society
- 9. Most Egyptians lived in the fertile Nile valley and _____.
- 12. reed plant that Egyptians used to make paper
- 13. the group of people that did much of the work on the pyramids during the flood season
- 15. at the top of the Egyptian social
- 20. Egyptian writing system
- 21. Egypt is the ___ of the Nile.
- 25. ____, Middle, New--Egyptian historical time periods
- 27. Famous stone structure with the body of a lion with a human head
- 30. Egyptians called deserts the ___ ____ because of their scorching heat.
- 31. Three seasons--inundation, emergence,_______