Pharoahs
Terms
Gods
Places in Egypt
King Tut
100
The boy pharaoh whose tomb was discovered in 1922 and gave us insight into Egyptian life.
Who is King Tut?
100
This is the Egyptian process of preserving the dead.
What is mummification?
100
He was the Egyptian sun god.
Who is Amon-re or Rah?
100
The major river in Egypt.
What is the Nile?
100
The father of King Tut.
Who is Akhenaton?
200
This pharaoh was a military genius who fought with the Hittites and ruled Egypt for many years.
Who is Ramses II?
200
This is a triangular area of marshland formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers.
What is a delta?
200
He was the god of the dead/underworld and Nile.
Who is Osiris?
200
The part of Egypt that covers the delta region where the Nile empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Lower Egypt?
200
The archeologist that discovered King Tut's tomb.
Who is Howard Carter?
300
She was the first woman to exercise all the rights as a pharaoh.
Who is Hatshepsut?
300
This is a belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
300
He killed Osiris and was also his brother.
Who is Set?
300
The area where most of the Egyptian rulers were buried.
What is Valley of the Kings?
300
He funded the excavation of King Tut's tomb.
Who is Lord Carnarvon?
400
This pharaoh constructed the Great Pyramid at Giza during the Old Kingdom.
Who is Khufu?
400
This a a royal advisor to the pharaoh?
What is a vizier?
400
She was the wife of Osiris who put him back together after he was cut up into pieces.
Who is Isis?
400
The area of Egypt that stretched from the first waterfall to within 100 miles of the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Upper Egypt?
400
Name King Tut's two royal advisors.
Who is Ay and Horemheb?
500
The king who united upper and lower Egypt.
Who is Menes?
500
A simpler form of writing for everyday use developed by the scribes.
What is demotic?
500
Akhenaton forced the people of Egypt to believe in only this god.
Who is Aton?
500
This is where Khufu constructed the Great Pyramid.
What is Giza?
500
List three events that may suggest that King Tut's tomb may have been cursed.
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