True/False: Everyone was buried in pyramids in Ancient Egypt.
What is False?
100
Egyptian writing/records were kept on this material:
What is papyrus?
100
True/False: Upper Nubia was in Northern Nubia.
What is False?
200
Egypt's great river empties into this great body of water that serves as Egypt's northern border/boundary.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
Cleopatra secretly "married" and had 3 children for this Roman general.
Who is Marc Antony?
200
The only organ left in the body during mummification is:
What is the heart?
200
This object, discovered in 1799, has helped archaeologists decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs?
What is the Rosetta Stone?
200
Because of its skilled archers, Nubia was often called:
What is the Land of the Bow?
300
Egypt's great river has (this many) _____ rock-filled rapids/cataracts that make travel through Nubia difficult.
What are 6?
300
One of the reasons why Pharaohs had absolute power was because the people believed that the Pharaohs were also:
What is divine (gods)?
300
This ceremony/ritual allowed mummies to speak, hear, eat, and move in the afterlife.
What is the Opening of the Mouth ceremony?
300
From studying the stars, Egyptians were able to predict when their great river would flood and also determined this length of time (that we still use today).
What is 365 days in a year?
300
Nubia was forced to develop a land trade route because of this physical feature.
What are the 6 cataracts of the Nile River?
400
What physical features protect Egypt from eastern & western foreign invasion?
What are deserts?
400
The most famous pharaohs we've studies lived during which kingdom? (old, middle, new)
What is New Kingdom?
400
These small objects would become animated and tend to the rich and famous in the afterlife:
What are Shabtis?
400
This social class was the large group of people in Egypt:
What are peasants?
400
Of the following, this was the first and greatest Nubian capital:
A. Napata
B. Kerma
C. Meroe
What is Kerma?
500
Ancient Egyptians often called Egypt this, meaning "black land".
What is Kemet?
500
He was the first pharaoh...united Upper & Lower Egypt in 3100 BC.
Who is Menes?
500
This salt-like substance was used during the mummification process to dry out the bodies:
What is natron?
500
Ancient Egyptian medicine was based on _______, the practice of creating medicines from plants. They used these natural remedies to help ease everyday illnesses such as stomachaches and headaches.
What is Herbalism?
500
Nubia's last period of greatness was in the 600's BC with this city as it's capital:
A. Meroe
B. Kerma
C. Napata