Geography
This map projection captures the shapes of continents very accurately but distorts the sizes greatly.
What is the Mercator Projection?
This King is very well known today but had virtually no accomplishments of his own.
Who is King Tutankhamun?
This pyramid held the record for the world's tallest building for nearly 4000 years.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
Egyptians were buried with their possessions because they believed in...
What is the afterlife?
This was a symbol of transformation and resurrection?
What is the scarab beetle?
The marshy area of the Nile River where it meets the Mediterranean Sea is what geographical feature?
What is a delta?
This King ordered the construction of the Great Pyramids of Giza.
Who is Khufu?
This was the first truly successful pyramid.
What is the Red pyramid?
Egyptian hieroglyphics were used for what type of writing? Also, demotic script was used for what other type of writing?
What is ceremonial for hieroglyphics and everyday or business/record keeping for demotic?
The Ankh was a symbol of
What is life and immortality?
The flooding of the Nile River was different from the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates because it was
What is predictable?
This so-called King ruled in the place of a relative who was much too young to rule for himself.
Who is Hatshepsut?
This pyramid was built at two different angles and is unique in the Egyptian world.
What is the Bent Pyramid?
What is the story of how the Egyptians imagined their own creation?
What is that its starts with Heka who magically creates the universe and Atum who creates all else. (Must be more detailed than this.)
This was the ceremony used during mummification to determine if the person would pass to Amenti?
What is the weighing of the heart ceremony?
This part of Egypt was south of the other part of Egypt. What is the southern part called and why is it called that?
What is Upper Egypt because the Nile River flows down from there.
This king united Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is King Narmer?
The pyramids were built as _______ for the pharaohs?
What is tombs?
Egyptian culture remained largely unchanged for approximately how long?
What is 3100 years?
This was a stone tablet that told the story of the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt.
What is the Narmer Palette?
What were four gifts of the Nile?
What is fish, fowl, papyrus and rich, fertile mud or silt.
This King decided to change many things about Egypt's culture and was widely seen as a heretic.
Who is Akhenaten?
What is the most recent debunked theory for how the pyramids were built and who was the person responsible for it?
What is the internal ramp theory and Jean-Pierre Houdin?
Who were the Gods of the Great Ennead?
Who is Ra, Shu, Tefnut, Nut, Geb, Osiris, Isis, Nephtys, and Seth.
This god was responsible for the creation of the whole world? Who was he and what form did he take?
Who is Atum or Ra in the form of Khepre?