Geography/Physical Features
In what direction does the Nile flow?
What is North?
What is "great house?"
Egyptians turned to gods and goddesses when science and technology could not explain what?
What is nature?
What large contraption/tool did Egyptians use to water their crops?
What is a shadoof?
What is a large stone monument?
What is the change from fertile land to desert due to climate or human actions?
What is desertification?
What was a pharaoh buried in once he/she died?
What is a pyramid?
Who is the god who created humans with his own sweat and tears?
Who is Ra?
What is a series of rulers form the same family?
What is a dynasty?
What were kings buried in BEFORE pyramids?
What is a mastaba?
What is a triangle-shaped area of islands and marshes?
What is the Nile Delta?
Who is considered to be the most famous pharaoh, who died when he was only 19?
Which god was murdered by his own brother and is the god of the underworld?
Who is Osiris?
What is a command carried out by viziers?
What is an edict?
According to legend, who united Lower and Upper Egypt?
Who is King Menses?
Why is farming so great in the NRV?
What is silt? OR What is rich soil?
Who was the first woman pharaoh who increased trade and went against the "social norms" by becoming a pharaoh?
Who is Hatshepsut?
Who is the goddess of the sky, and is often shown with cow horns?
Who is Hathor?
What was used to translate hieroglyphics?
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Who invaded Egypt during the Middle Kingdom and brought military innovations and bronze/copper tools?
Who are the Hyksos?
What physical feature of the Nile did not allow big ships or outsiders to pass?
What are cataracts?
Who wanted everyone to worship one god, Aton?
Who is Amenhotep IV?
Who is the son of Osiris and is known as the protector of Egypt?
Who is Horus?
Who drove the Kushites back to their homeland?
Who are the Assyrians?
Who gained independence by the time the Hyksos took over Egypt?
What is Nubia?