Egyptians used the Nile for transportation in taking goods to sell and bringing back precious cargo in this important economic activity involving other nations.
What is trade?
100
The Egyptians watered their land near the Nile by this method, using canals and channels.
What is irrigation?
100
The Egyptians called their rulers this name, meaning "Great House".
What is pharaoh?
100
These stone tombs built by the ancient Egyptians were the tallest buildings in the world for almost 3,500 years.
What are the pyramids?
100
Egyptians made this form of paper by pressing reed plants together.
What is papyrus?
200
This Egyptian god of the Underworld, often depicted with a jackal head, was your judge in the afterlife.
Who was Anubis?
200
This simple machine worked like a seesaw to lift water from the river up to the canals.
What is a shaduf?
200
The pharaohs claimed right to rule because they claimed to be a human form of which god?
Who is Horus?
200
This pharaoh ordered the building of the Great Pyramid as his tomb.
Who was Khufu?
200
Unlike the Mesopotamians, who wrote with wedge-shaped symbols, the Egyptians used this form of picture-writing.
What are hieroglyphics?
300
This is a triangularly shaped area of land at the mouth of a river created by silt deposits.
What is a delta?
300
These members of Egyptians society were the only group considered lower than farmers.
Who are slaves?
300
Even though he wasn't a very important pharaoh in his life, this ruler became famous when his tomb, filled with treasures, was discovered in 1922.
Who was Tutankhamen?
300
Egyptians believed that to get into the afterlife, your heart had to weigh less than this object.
What is a feather?
300
This group was specially trained to read the 700 symbols of ancient Egyptian, and were the only members of society who could read and write.
Who were scribes?
400
The Nile River was so important to the survival of the Egyptians, the ancient Greeks called Egyptian civilization...
What is "the Gift of the Nile?"
400
Egypt had few metals, so workers were paid with this agricultural product.
What is grain?
400
I hope he had some tanning lotion! Ra, the most important Egyptian god, was in charge this.
What is the sun?
400
Because Egyptians believed you needed to take your body with you to the afterlife, the dead were preserved by this method.
What is mummification?
400
Hieroglyphics were a mystery for most modern historians and archaeologists, until discovery of this volcanic stone, written in Greek and hieroglyphs, helped crack the code.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
500
Most of the land located a few miles from the Nile River is mostly what type of topography?
What is desert?
500
Having the right measurement of grain for trade and purchase led to the Egyptians inventing this tool.
What are scales?
500
This powerful female pharaoh ruled for her young stepson after her husband died. She never let him wear the pharaoh's "hat" until after her death.
Who is Hatshepsut?
500
Thieves in the Valley of the Kings stole the belongings of deceased pharaohs to sell them to tourists and to pay this government fee.
What were taxes?
500
This man used his knowledge of ancient Greek to decode the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone.