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This is the world's longest river, running south to north, and provided a great gift to a civilization.
What is the Nile?
100
This is a system of writing made up of picture symbols developed by the ancient Egyptians.
What are hieroglyphics?
100
This was the nickname for the dark, fertile mud left behind after the world's longest river flooded.
What is the "Black Land"?
100
This is the term Egyptians used for their kings.
What is a pharaoh?
100
This is a reed plant that was used by an ancient civilization for baskets, sandals, river rafts, and papermaking.
What is papyrus?
200
This was the sun god of the ancient Egyptians, a deity people believed to be the father of the Egyptian king.
Who is Re?
200
The pyramids, huge structures built by the ancient Egyptians to serve as a tomb, were built with this material.
What is stone?
200
This is a term for extra amounts of food.
What is a surplus?
200
This Egyptian god ruled the dead with his wife, Isis.
Who is Osiris?
200
These were the original two large kingdoms before Egypt was united.
What are Lower and Upper Egypt?
300
This is the largest desert in the world, located to the west of Egypt in Africa.
What is the Sahara?
300
This is the term for a line of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
300
This is an area of fertile soil at the mouth of the world's longest river that looks like branches.
What is the Nile Delta?
300
This is payment made by one group or nation to another to show obedience or to obtain peace or protection.
What is tribute?
300
This was the name of the process developed by ancient Egyptians of preserving a person's body after death.
What is embalming?
400
This is the largest of the Egyptian pyramids and still stands today.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
400
These were the names of the three kingdoms of ancient Egypt.
What are the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms?
400
Egyptians studied this collection of spells/prayers to have life after death.
What is the BOOK OF THE DEAD?
400
These were readers/writers who worked for rulers, priests, and traders in ancient Egypt.
What are scribes?
400
Invading civilizations were able to defeat Egypt primarily because of these two elements of weaponry.
What are horse-drawn chariots and iron weapons?
500
These non-farmers in ancient Egypt wove cloth, made pottery, carved statues or shaped copper into weapons/tools.
What are artisans?
500
This Egyptian king was an ineffective ruler and got rid of the Egyptian gods and goddesses in favor of one god.
Who is Amenhotep/Akhenaton?
500
This kingdom in ancient Egypt was located in the north part and had a king who wore an open red crown with a curlicue.
What is Lower Egypt?
500
This became the new location for tombs, cut into cliffs instead of pyramids.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
500
Bowl-shaped holes, canals, and dikes were all examples of this.
What is Egyptian irrigation?
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