Geography
Rulers of Egypt
Beliefs and Mythology
Egyptian Culture
Vocabulary
100
Egypt is on this continent.
What is Africa?
100
This pharaoh united Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who was Menes?
100
The belief in many gods and/or goddesses.
What is polytheism?
100
Picture-like symbols
What are hieroglyphs?
100
A large waterfall; any strong flood or rush of water.
What is a cataract?
200
This river flows north through Egypt.
What is the Nile?
200
This Egyptian queen ruled as a pharaoh.
Who was Hatshepsut?
200
The Great Pyramid was built in this city.
What is Giza?
200
An early form of paper made from reeds.
What is papyrus?
200
A series of rulers from the same family or ethnic group.
What is a dynasty?
300
This is a plain at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
300
This pharaoh ruled Egypt after his stepmother, Hatshepsut.
Who was Thutmose III?
300
The ancient Egyptian god of the living and the dead.
Who was Osiris?
300
This stone helped to translate the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
300
Someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule.
What is a regent?
400
In Nubia, these two rivers merge to form the Nile River.
What are the Blue Nile and the White Nile?
400
Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt until it was conquered by this civilization.
Who were the Romans?
400
The ancient Egyptian falcon god.
Who was Horus?
400
These people formed the largest social class in ancient Egypt.
Who were the peasants?
400
An ancient region in the Nile River Valley, on the site of present-day southern Egypt and northern Sudan.
What is Nubia?
500
This is fine soil found on river bottoms.
What is silt?
500
This ancient pharaoh's tomb was discovered in 1922.
Who was Tutankhamun (King Tut)?
500
Mummification was part of the process of preparing the pharaoh's soul for the ___.
What is afterlife?
500
The Egyptians figured out the calendar year contains this many days.
What is 365 days?
500
Complete power over someone or something.
What is absolute power?
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