Geography and Sites
Religions
Government and Rulers
Culture
Miscellaneous
100
Continent Egypt is part of
What is Africa?
100
This process preserved bodies for the afterlife
What is mummification
100
Youngest boy king whose unopened tomb was discovered in 1922
Who was King Tut?
100
Ancient Egyptian system of writing
What were hieroglyphics?
100
God of the sun
Who was Ra?
200
Egypt's major river
What is the Nile?
200
Tombs built to house the rulers
What are pyramids (accept sarcophagus)
200
An Egyptian ruler
What is a pharaoh?
200
Paper like Egyptian writing material
What is papyrus?
200
Collection of magic spells to help achieve life after death
What was "The Book of the Dead"
300
Region formed by the mouth of Egypt's major river
What is the Nile Delta?
300
God of the underworld
Who is Osiris?
300
First era of ancient Egyptian history; the Pyramid Age
What was The Old Kingdom?
300
Artifact that showed how to decipher Egyptian writing
What is the Rosetta Stone?
300
The writing and record keeping person
Who was a scribe?
400
Type of land that bordered Egypt's river valley
What is the desert?
400
Fertility goddess, wife of Osiris
Who is Isis?
400
Second era of ancient Egyptian history
What was The Middle Kingdom?
400
Economic basis of Egyptian power and wealth, how did they make money
What was agriculture?
400
Belief in a single god
What is monotheistic?
500
Huge statue of a crouching lion with a human head
What was the Sphinx?
500
Belief in a number of gods
What is polytheism?
500
Female ruler who expanded trade and public building, known as a female King
Who was Queen Hatshepsut?
500
Material Egyptians used to write with
What is ink?
500
Site of the Great Pyramid, plus other pyramids
What is Giza?
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