Ancient Egypt 6-1.3

The Nile River provided the people of Ancient Egypt with

• Areas for hunting and gathering

• An abundance of food

• Too much rain

Gift of the Nile refers to

• King Tut

• Amun-Re

• Egypt

A triangular, fan-shaped piece of land made by deposits of mud and sand at the mouth of a river

• delta

• cataract

• silt

A stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics, Greek, and a later form of the Egyptian language. Historians were able to translate Hieroglypics using this.

• Pyramids

• Senet

• Rosetta Stone

The belief in more than one god

• polytheism

• theocracy

• monotheism

Was the ruler of Egypt and was considered to be a living god

• Sphinx

• Pharaoh

• Mummy

God of the underworld-Judged the souls of the dead

• Horus

• Isis

• Osiris

God of the Pharaohs, the pharaoh alive on earth, a sky god

• Amon-Re

• Horus

• Osiris

Egyptians believed they were the homes of the gods

• sphinx

• obelisk

• temples

Why did the Ancient Egyptians embalm bodies after death?

• to protect bodies for the afterlife

• to be respectful of tradition

• to follow government rules