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Potpourri
100
This major landform runs through Egypt from south to north.
What is the Nile?
100
The Pharaoh was considered a ruler, priest, and this.
What is a God?
100
Most of the pyramids are located in this Egyptian city.
What is Giza?
100
This is the name for the process where a dead body is preserved.
What is embalming.
100
This Egyptian structure is one of seven "wonders of the world"
What is the Great Pyramid (at Giza)?
200
Egypt is located on this continent.
What is Africa?
200
This Pharaoh changed his name to Akhenaton and tried to get people to worship only one god.
Who is Amenhotep IV?
200
This type of monument guards that the Great Pyramids and is half human and half animal.
What is the Sphinx?
200
This is the term used to describe a body that has been wrapped.
What is a mummy.
200
This discovery helped archaeologists decode hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
300
This is the location of many New Kingdom underground tombs.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
300
This person was in charge of giving out land in ancient Egypt?
Who is the Pharaoh?
300
The tomb of this pharaoh is famous because it was one of the few burial places that was not robbed of it's artifacts.
Who is King Tut?
300
Egyptians can be described by this term, which means "believing in many different Gods."
What is polytheistic?
300
This was a type of grass that Egyptians used to make the first paper.
What is papyrus?
400
This natural event happened every year and helped Egypt to maintain it's rich soil.
What is flooding?
400
This ruler is famous for united Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Menes?
400
Archaeologists believe that these structures were built next to pyramids to help workers transport the stones.
What are ramps?
400
Egyptians studied this book; a type of instruction manual for the afterlife.
What is the Book of the Dead.
400
The pharaoh Akhenaten suggested that people only believe in this god.
Who is Aten?
500
This machine helped Egyptians to lift water from the Nile.
What is a shadoof?
500
This group of people would eventually conquer Egypt and introduce horse-drawn chariots.
Who are the Hyksos?
500
This female ruler was famous for building more monuments and temples than any ruler before her. Most were destroyed by her stepson.
Who is Hetshepsut?
500
This was the god of both the harvest and eternal life.
Who is Osiris?
500
This group of conquerors eventually caused the fall of the Egyptian Empire at the end of the New Kingdom.
Who are the Assyrians?
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