Geography
Pharaoh's
Vocabulary
Egypt Facts 1
Egypt Facts 2
100
The river which flows through Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
100
Who is King Tut?
100
The process of preparing a body for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
100
Taking the brain out of the nose.
What is part of the mummification process?
100
What did the Rosetta Stone help us do?
Understand and how to read hieroglyphs
200
The names of the TWO regions of Egypt.
What are Upper and Lower Egypt?
200
He was the first Pharaoh of Egypt, and he unified Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Menes?
200
A large stone structure that is built to be a tomb for the pharaoh's.
What is a pyramid?
200
What is the name of this person?
Who is Nerfertiti?
200
What is this monument called?
What is a sphinx?
300
The continent that Egypt is part of. (Egypt is the country, I need the continent!)
What is Africa?
300
This pharaoh depicted herself as a man
Who is Hatshepsut?
300
Boys that are trained to use hieroglyphs to keep records and contracts.
What is a scribe?
300
The definition for the word that means bringing together two things, such as Upper and Lower Egypt.
What is unification?
300
What is this monument called?
What is an obelisk?
400
What is the main reason Egyptians settled where they did?
The area served as a source of fresh water
400
What is the year King Tut was found by Howard Carter?
What is 1922.
400
The title for the rulers of Egypt.
What is a Pharaoh?
400
The place at which a river empties into a larger body of water.
What is a delta?
400
What book did the Egyptians use for burial?
What is The Book of the Dead?
500
Around what natural feature did the Egyptians settle by?
A river
500
Which pharaoh is depicted in the movie The Prince of Egypt?
Who is Ramses II?
500
A reed plant that was used to practice hieroglyphs on.
What is papyrus?
500
What is an invention the Egyptians developed while building the pyramids?
What is a 365-day calendar with 12 months?
500
The Egyptian invention to prevent a body from decomposing?
What is the act of embalming?