Studies Weekly #6: Life in Ancient Egypt

In hieroglyphs, a picture represented or stood for a ___________.

A pharaoh basically controlled everything in Egypt.

True or False: The Ancient Egyptians were polythiestic.

The Chinese method of making paper replaced papyrus because it was ___________.

Jean-Francois Champollion discovered the Rosetta Stone.

Papyrus was an aquatic plant that the Egyptians used for ________.

During mummification, the __________ was removed because it was not considered useful.

The Egyptians believed in an afterlife and that a person's behavior in this life would determine how they spend eternity

The word "hieroglyphs" means _______ in Greek.

King Menes combined Eastern and Western Egypt into one kingdom.

The Egyptians believed that in order to live forever, the spirit or ______, needed a home.

When a body was mummified it was wrapped in ______________.

The Rosetta Stone had _____ different kinds of writing on it and that helped decode hieroglyphs.

King Menes was given the title of "pharaoh" which translates to mean

The Ancient Egyptians settled along the _______ River, believed to be the longest river in the world.

Hieroglyphs were thought to be sacred because everyone could read it.

The oldest mummy isn't from Egypt.

The word paper comes from paper-mache.

The mummification process took ____ days.

The Egyptian god of the sky was