Ancient Egypt: Gods, Geography, and Social Hierarchy

A Map word bank b c • Mediterranean Sea • Nile Delta • Nile River • Red Sea • Upper Egypt • Lower Egypt • Sahara F g d e

Question 1 Identify this god: he is the god of the sun and has the head of a hawk. Ra

Question 2 • Identify this god: • he is the god of the underworld and is married to his sister. Osiris

Question 3 • Identify this god: • he is the god of the Nile and its annual flooding. Hapi

Question 4 Identify this goddess: she is the protector and considered mother of the pharaohs. She is married to her brother. Isis

Question 5 Identify this god: he is the god of knowledge and wisdom. Thoth

Question 6 • Which geographic feature is located at a? Mediterannean Sea

Question 7 • Which geographic feature is located at b? Nile Delta

Question 8 • Which geographic feature is located at c? Lower Egypt

Question 9 • Which geographic feature is located at d? Sahara

Question 10 • Which geographic feature is located at e? Upper Egypt

Question 11 • Which geographic feature is located at f? Nile

Question 12 • Which geographic feature is located at g? Red Sea

Question 13 What is the name of the people who spent 12 years learning how to write Egyptian hieroglyphics? Scribes

Question 14 • Who was at the top of the Egyptian social pyramid? Pharaoh

Question 15 • Who was the largest class of people in ancient Egypt? Farmers/Slaves

Question 16 A line of rulers who all come from a single family is called a _______. dynasty

Question 17 • A _______ was used to move water from the Nile into large basins. shadoof

Question 18 • The pharaoh used ___________ to help him rule Ancient Egypt. bureaucrats

Question 19 Egypt was a _________, or a government in which the political leaders are also religious leaders. theocracy

Question 20 • Mummification is the process of _________ a dead body in order to preserve it. embalming

Question 21 • Egyptians believed their pharaoh was half human and half ___. god

Question 22 True or false: Ancient Egyptians believed they needed their body in the afterlife. True

Question 23 • Who in ancient Egypt would be embalmed? Pharaohs and rich nobles

Question 24 • What were the two different types of tombs pharaohs could be buried in? Pyramids and underground chambers

Question 25 The discovery of the Rosetta stone allowed scientists to finally translate hieroglyphics. This resulted in the discovery of who’s tomb? King Tut

Egypt’s social hierarchy • Fill in your social pyramid with the jobs that belong in each rank. • Create a small illustration for each rank to help you remember the job(s) it includes. • Complete the questions on the back of the sheet using your textbook pages 76-78 in the “How people lived” section. • Place in the Notes section of your binder!

Making a mummy • The Egyptians believed that you needed your body for the next life, so they perfected the art of embalming • Only the pharaohs and the richest nobles could afford to be mummified when they died.

Making a mummy • In the early part of Egypt, pharaohs were buried in pyramids. Toward the middle and end of the Egyptian civilization, pharaohs were buried in underground chambers in the valley of the kings.

Ancient Egypt: Gods, Geography, and Social Hierarchy