Society and Culture
Achievments
Geography
Government
Vocabulary
100
This person can be found at the top of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
Who is the pharaoh?
100
This item is what ancient Egyptians used to write upon.
What is papyrus?
100
The longest river in the world
What is The Nile?
100
The head of the ancient Egyptian government was called this.
What is pharaoh?
100

This invention helped Ancient Egyptian farmers with irrigation

What is a shadoof?

200
Ancient Egyptian religion is this type.
What is polytheistic or polytheism?
200
Ancient Egyptians used this to communicate on papyrus.
What is hieroglyphics?
200
This large body of water is to the north of Egypt
and provided protection from that direction.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200

The pharaoh was seen as one of these.

What is a god?

200

This triangular shaped region created when soil is deposited at the end of the river.

What is a Delta?

300
These are the people at the bottom of the social pyramid in ancient Egypt.
Who were unskilled workers?
300
In addition to making paper, papyrus was also used in this manner.
What is making sandals, baskets, and rafts.
*If you named one of these items, you get the points.
300
This is a geographic formation where the Nile River
meets the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile Delta (or river delta)?
300

This job person was the head of Egypt's bureaucracy.

What is a Vizier?

300
These are wild, dangerous rapids located in the Nile River.
What are cataracts?
400
Farmers used this annual occurrence to help them grow their produce.
What is the annual flooding of the Nile River?
400
Ancient Egyptians were very good with medicine and science.
This means of preserving their dead is one example of
their skills.
What is mummification or embalming.
400
This extreme geographic land form is to the west of Egypt.
What is the Western Desert? * Sahara Desert is also correct, but you need to know Western Desert and Eastern Desert.
400
This woman was the last ancient Egyptian pharaoh.
Who is Cleopatra?
400
There are many of these massive
constructions throughout Egypt.
What are pyramids?
500
In addition to the annual flooding of the Nile River,
ancient and modern Egyptian farmers still use this
technology in their farming.
What is irrigation?
500
This is one of the mathematical innovations
of the ancient Egyptians still in use today.
What is the 365 day calendar
... or... the base 10 number system?

(Either answer works, you should know both!)

Our textbook also mentions geometry.
500
The Nile River flows in this direction.
What is north?
500

This is a country, state, or territory ruled by a king or queen.

What is a Kingdom?

500

This is a system of government where decisions are made by a few people from the upper class.

What is bureaucracy?

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