Ancient Egyptians Vocabulary

What is Papyrus?

• A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse, paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East.

• Egyptians built these structures to protect the bodies of dead pharaohs. These structures also contained items the pharaohs might need in the afterlife.

What is a Pharaoh?

• A ruler of ancient Egypt.

• An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds

What is a Bureaucracy?

• Belief in one god

• A system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials

What are Hieroglyphics?

• An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds

  
  

• A religious teacher who is regarded as someone who speaks for God or for a god

What are Pyramids?

• Egyptians built these structures to protect the bodies of dead pharaohs. These structures also contained items the pharaohs might need in the afterlife.

• In ancient Egypt, those responsible for using hieroglyphics to record important information and maintain records were called

What is Mummification?

• The embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy.

• This ancient Egyptian leader fought against the Hittites in the area that was then called Kadesh. Loved war and oversaw the building of impressive structures.

What is Monotheism?

• Belief in one god

• A religious teacher who is regarded as someone who speaks for God or for a god

What is a Prophet?

• Remind those dead of what life was like in the previous world

• A religious teacher who is regarded as someone who speaks for God or for a god

Who was Ramses II?

• This ancient Egyptian leader fought against the Hittites in the area that was then called Kadesh. Loved war and oversaw the building of impressive structures.

• Egyptians developed a calendar with 365 days based on the sun.

What was the Book of the Dead?

• The most important god of all those worshiped by the Egyptians was the sun god

• Served as a guide to the afterlife for dead souls.