Pharaohs
Major Cities
Egyptian Terms
Giver and Taker of Life
"Sacred Carvings"
100
The Egyptian leader, who according to legend, unified Upper and Lower Egypt in c. 3150 B.C.
Who is King Menes?
100
This city is the current capital of Egypt.
What is Cairo
100
This is a preserved body wrapped in linen bandages.
What is a mummy?
100
This river is the world's longest river measuring over 4,000 miles.
What is the Nile River?
100
The written language of the Ancient Egyptians.
What are Hieroglyphics?
200
The Egyptian pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid at Giza.
Who is Khufu?
200
This city was the capital of Upper Egypt during the Old Kingdom.
What is Thebes?
200
A term meaning "waterfall".
What is a cataract?
200
A triangular-shaped area of soil at the mouth of a river.
What is a Delta?
200
This famous piece of rock was used to decipher the Ancient Egyptian writing.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
300
This powerful Egyptian pharaoh was a woman who wore a beard to demonstrate her power.
Who is Hatshepsut?
300
This Kushite city was a great trade center until A.D. 350.
What is Meroe?
300
This plant's stems were used to make paper.
What is papyrus?
300
The Nile River would flood between these two months.
What are May and September?
300
The number of languages found on the Rosetta Stone.
What is three?
400
This boy king became famous when his tomb was discovered "untouched" in 1922.
Who is King Tutankhamun?
400
This famous Egyptian city was located on the Mediterranean Sea and named for Alexander the Great.
What is Alexandria?
400
This term for a God king means"Great House".
What is Pharaoh?
400
The Nile River flows north out of East Africa and into Egypt where it empties out into this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
This famous Frenchman was able to break the code of the Rosetta Stone.
Who is Jean-Francois Champollion?
500
This Nubian king and his son took control of Ancient Egypt c. 750 B.C.
Who is King Kashta?
500
This Egyptian city was made the capital of Ancient Egypt during the 1st dynasty of rulers.
What is Memphis?
500
The way people use and manage their resources.
What is an economy?
500
This is a mixture of soil and small rocks carried by the Nile River.
What is Silt?
500
This Ancient Nubian written language has never been decoded.
What is Meroitic?
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