What is Blue River, from Ethiopia and the White River from central Africa.
100
The name given to a "king" in Egypt
What is a pharaoh?
100
The belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
100
The writing that the Ancient Egyptians used to communicate
What is hieroglyphics?
100
Life after death
What is the afterlife?
200
The length of the Nile River
What is 4000 miles?
200
The queen who took over and reigned as regent for her stepson around 1500 B.C. She then claimed the throne for herself.
Who is Hatshepsut?
200
The god that led the Egyptians into the afterlife
Who is Anubis?
200
The material that Ancient Egyptians wrote upon.
What is papyrus?
200
Huge buildings with four sloping outside walls
What is a pyramid?
300
The fertile strip that contained good soil for farming, about 6 miles wide from the Nile River.
What is Upper Egypt?
300
The three major time periods of Egyptian history
What is the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom?
300
The chief god of the Egyptians who protected both the rich and the poor.
Who is Amun-Re?
300
What the Egyptians discovered as they studied the stars.
What is astronomy: realized that they saw the same pattern after 365 days (this became their year).
300
Skilled workers
What is skilled workers?
400
The area shaped like a triangle that contains very fertile farmland.
What is a delta?
400
The pharaohs were not only seen as kings, but also as this.
What is a god?
400
Three items that the Egyptians would have taken into the afterlife with them.
What is all worldly possessions? (Horses, slaves, gold, jewelry, furniture, clothes, horses, etc).
400
Two medical advancements that the Egyptians contributed to the world.
What are surgery and herbalism?
400
A preserved body
What is a mummy?
500
The name that the Ancient Egyptians called their land, meaning "the black land."
What is Kemet?
500
The King that united Upper and Lower Egypt to create one of the most stable civilizations in Egypt's history for 2500 years.
Who is Menes?
500
The reason why religion was such an important part of Egyptian culture
What is it explained the workings of nature.
500
The four social classes (and who they contain) of Ancient Egypt.
What is Pharaoh, Small upper class (priests, members of the pharaoh's court, and nobles), middle class (artisans and merchants), and the peasants (laborers, farmers).