a pharaoh who ruled from about the age of 9 to 19. His tomb remained untouched until 1922 when it was discovered.
Who is Tutankhamun?
100
This term means the watering of dry land by means of canals, ditches, pipes, etc. controlling the flow of water.
What is Irrigation?
100
the group with the least amount of people on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the Pharaohs?
100
This is the continent Egypt is on
What is Africa?
100
We know how to read hieroglyphics, because this stone slab was found.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
200
The last pharaoh of Egypt.
Who is Cleopatra?
200
This is a reed plant that grows along the Nile, which can be used to make paper. The Egyptians also used it to make sandals, boats, and many other things.
What is Papyrus?
200
The group that has the most people in it on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are peasants?
200
The name of the fertile flat land made of silt left behind as a river drains into a larger body of water. It is normally in a triangle shape.
What is a Delta?
200
The god of embalming.
Who is Anubis?
300
the pharaoh that ordered the building of the Great Pyramid.
Who is Khufu?
300
This was the first kingdom of Ancient Egypt, and is the period when pyramids were build.
What is the Old Kingdom?
300
Name two groups that are above the farmers on the social pyramid, but below the pharaohs.
What are: (any two of the following): artisans, scribes, priests, and government officials?
300
the southern area of ancient Egypt
What is Upper Egypt?
300
The nationality of Alexander the Great
What is Greek? (I would also accept Macedonian)
400
the pharaoh that unified Lower and Upper Egypt and became the first pharaoh.
Who is Menes?
400
The person who ruled for a pharaoh if they were too young to rule yet.
What is the regent?
400
Why was the Egyptian social hierarchy so rigid?
What is because people were born into their class or social group, and they married and socialized with others in their class. (social classes didn't mix)
400
the direction the Nile River flows from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt.
What is North?
400
Explain why modern egyptologists do NOT think that the pyramids were built by slaves.
What is that they found cities for the workers, including tombs for the workers with their names, job titles, and artwork that shows they were respected?
500
The pharaoh who is greatly remembered for his military conquests and very long reign
Who is Ramses II?
500
These are what ancient Egyptian embalmers put the organs in of people they were mummifying.
What are canopic jars?
500
Give an example of how women in ancient Egypt had more rights than in other ancient civilizations.
What are they could: own property, run a business, ask for divorces, and represent themselves in legal manners? (would also accept that their were multiple female pharaohs)
500
The purpose Egypt's deserts served.
What is they protected Egypt from invaders?
500
This is the name of the dynasty that Cleopatra was a part of.