Review: The Nile River & Life in Ancient Egypt

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