Society and Culture
This person can be found at the top of the social pyramid.
Who/What is the pharaoh?
This is the longest river in the world, and the river that was used by most of Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile?
This was the method ancient Egyptians used instead of currency.
What is trade/bartering?
What is the writing system used by ancient Egyptians?
What is hieroglyphics?
This was used instead of pyramids after Ancient Egyptians discovered they were often being robbed.
What are tombs?
Religion in Ancient Egypt was this type.
What is polytheism/polytheistic
This is the direction the Nile River flows.
This is what pharaohs were buried in.
What is a pyramid/tomb?
This is the item that ancient Egyptians would write on.
What is papyrus?
These are some things a pharaoh might be buried with.
What are riches/gold/gems/favorite pets/loved ones/amulets/pottery/artwork?
These are the people at the bottom of the social pyramid.
Who are Egyptian slaves
This is the name of the body of water the Nile empties into, North of Egypt.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This was the job that took 3 years of schooling to teach people how to write.
What is a scribe?
Ancient Egyptians were very good with medicine and science.
This means of preserving their dead is one example of their skills.
What is mummification?
This Queen was thought to be one of the most beautiful known.
Who is Queen Nefertiti?
Farmers used this annual event in order to get fertile soil and to water their crops.
What is the flooding of the Nile?
These are the 2 deserts that boarder ancient Egypt.
What are the Nubian and Libyan deserts?
This is the Egyptian God believed to be most important/powerful, who was thought to be the God of the sun.
Who is Ra?
These are 2 things that scribes and hieroglyphics were able to keep track of in Egyptian life.
What are taxes/medical records/family records/court proceedings/wills/contracts?
This was the area tombs were built in secret for pharaohs, where the only people who knew where the tombs were the people who built them.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
Pharaohs were thought to be so high in the social order that they were believed to be ______.
What are Gods?
This is one of the three ways that geography affected life in ancient Egypt.
If you can name all three, regardless of if you win, your team will receive 2 extra credit points.
What is water/topography/vegetation?
This was a religious principal all Egyptians lived by, which guided how they thought about their actions and how they affected others.
What is ma'at?
These are 4 pieces of technology Ancient Egyptians are credited with inventing.
Ox-Pulled Plow/Black ink/Paper or Papyrus/Medicine or Surgical Instruments/Calendar/Clocks/Makeup/Glass-Blow Artifacts
This person is credited with building the first pyramid in history.
Who is Djoser?