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This is the world's longest river, running south to north, and provided a great gift to a civilization.
What is the Nile?
100
This is a system of writing made up of picture symbols developed by the ancient Egyptians.
What are hieroglyphics?
100
This was the nickname for the Nile River
What is "Lifeblood"
100
This is the term Egyptians used for their kings.
What is a pharaoh?
100
This God of the desert locked his brother in a box and took over as the King of Egypt.
Who is Set?
200
This was the sun god of the ancient Egyptians, a deity people believed to be the father of the Egyptian king.
Who is Re?
200
The pyramids, huge structures built by the ancient Egyptians to serve as a tomb, were built with this material.
What is stone?
200
This is a term for extra amounts of food.
What is a surplus?
200
This Egyptian god ruled the dead with his wife, Isis.
Who is Osiris?
200
These were the original two large kingdoms before Egypt was united.
What are Lower and Upper Egypt?
300
This is the largest desert in the world, located to the west of Egypt in Africa.
What is the Sahara?
300
This is the term for a line of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
300
This is an area of fertile soil at the mouth of the world's longest river that looks like branches.
What is the Nile Delta?
300
This is payment made by one group or nation to another to show obedience or to obtain peace or protection.
What is tribute?
300
This was the name of the process developed by ancient Egyptians of preserving a person's body after death.
What is embalming?
400
This is the largest of the Egyptian pyramids and still stands today.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
400
These were the names of the three kingdoms of ancient Egypt.
What are the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms?
400
Egyptians studied this collection of spells/prayers to have life after death.
What is the BOOK OF THE DEAD?
400
These were readers/writers who worked for rulers, priests, and traders in ancient Egypt.
What are scribes?
400
These river rapids and rocks protected Egyptians from the south
What are cataracts?
500
These non-farmers in ancient Egypt wove cloth, made pottery, carved statues or shaped copper into weapons/tools.
What are artisans?
500
This is a reed plant that was used by an ancient civilization for baskets, sandals, river rafts, and papermaking
What is papyrus
500
This social group were given rights that they would not be given anywhere else such as owning property, becoming priests and divorce
Who are women?
500
These government officials did the daily work given to them by the pharaoh
Who are bureaucrats
500
Bowl-shaped holes, canals, and dikes were all examples of this.
What is Egyptian irrigation?
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