The process of specially treating bodies so that they do not decay over time
What is embalming?
100
The god of the dead
Who is Anubis?
100
A huge stone tomb with four triangle-shaped sides that met in a point on the top
What is a pyramid?
100
The name of the main river of Egypt
What is the Nile?
100
The highest position on the social pyramid
What is a pharaoh (god works too)?
200
Specially treated bodies wrapped in cloth
What is a mummy?
200
Another name for the spirit / soul of someone
What is ka?
200
The stone used to make smoother pyramids
What is limestone?
200
How many regions did Egypt have and what were their names?
What are two regions (Upper and Lower Egypt)?
200
People with this job / role made up most of Egypt
What are farmers, servants, and / or slaves?
300
The only organ that would stay in the body when someone was mummified
What is the heart?
300
The god of the underworld
Who is Osiris?
300
The time when Egyptians began to build smooth-sided pyramids
What is (around) 2700 BC?
300
The kind of soil near the Nile (bad hint: this made it easier to farm)
What is silt?
300
The most famous pharaoh of the Old Kingdom
Who was Khufu?
400
The only one who was allowed to perform the first step in preparing a mummy
Who was Anubis (an Ancient Egyptian god)?
400
The god that the people in the city of Memphis prayed to
Who is Ptah?
400
The people who usually built pyramids
What are peasants?
400
About the number of miles of a stretch that Egypt developed along
What is 750 (miles)?
400
The things that Egypt got from trading with Nubia (name two)
What are gold, copper, ivory, slaves, and stone?
500
The number of feet high that the largest pyramid still standing in Egypt is
What is 481 (feet)?
500
The names of the god of the sun, the goddess of magic, and a sky god / the god of the pharaohs (because I'm feeling lenient, you can name just one if you want)
Who are Re (or Amon-Re), Isis, and Horus
500
The exact way pyramids were built
Why are historians not sure? Trick question alert
500
The name that the people of Egypt called the land near the Nile sometimes
What is the black land?
500
What farmers did during flood seasons, when they couldn't work in the fields