Geography & The Nile
Mummification
Social Pyramid
Egyptian Achievements
Miscellaneous
100
True or False: The Nile is the longest river in the world.
True
100
Egyptians believed that when they died they went to this place.
What is the afterlife?
100
These Egyptians made up the largest group of the social pyramid.
Who are the slaves/peasants?
100
The Egyptian form of writing.
What is hieroglyphics?
100
What is a path developed and followed by traders?
A trade route.
200
The Nile has several points with rapids, what is another word for rapids?
Cataracts.
200
This member of the social pyramid was most likely to mummify Egyptians.
What is a priest?
200
These Egyptians kept written religious, government and historical records.
Who are scribes?
200
Egyptians wrote on this paper-like substance.
What is papyrus?
200
This female pharaoh expanded Egypt's trade and built many monuments and temples.
Who is Hatshepsut?
300
This part of the Nile is a triangle-shaped area of land made from deposits of soil.
What is the delta?
300
_____________ is the term used for the method of preserving bodies to keep them from decaying.
What is embalming?
300
What are two types of artisans?
What are sculptors, builders, carpenters, jewelers, metalworkers, leather workers, architects
300
A tall, four-sided pillar that is pointed on top.
What is an obelisk?
300
The term for the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.
What is engineering?
400
This annual event helped Egypt's farmland remain fertile.
What is the annual flood?
400
A mummy is placed into this type of coffin.
What is a sarcophagus?
400
This person had the most power in Egypt besides the pharaoh.
Who is the Vizier?
400
This artifact allowed historians to decipher Egyptian writing.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
400
A book that guides the mummification process and tells about the afterlife.
What is The Book of the Dead?
500
Where are Upper and Lower Egypt located?
Upper = Southern Egypt Lower = Northern Egypt
500
Only pharaohs and members of this Egyptian social class were mummified.
Who are nobles/elite/government officials.
500
A series of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
500
This pharaoh's tomb was significant because it was filled with jewelry, robes, a mask and statues that have been used to study Ancient Egyptians.
Who was King Tut?
500
In the Prince of Egypt, why were Egyptians killing Jewish babies?
To control the Jewish slave population so they did not rise against the Egyptians.
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