What is the name of the Pharaoh who unified Upper and Lower Egypt?
Who is Narmer?
100
the name given to the annual flood of the Nile. This was hugely important to Ancient Egypt as it provided for their farming needs.
What is Hapi or the Inundation
100
The Capital city of Egypt the Hyksos ruled during the 2nd Intermediate Period.
What is Avaris?
100
The Old Kingdom Pharaoh that is credited with building the Great Pyramid of Giza?
Who is Khufu?
100
The Red Crown of Lower Egypt and the White Crown of Upper Egypt come together to form?
What is the The Pschent?
200
The the name of the periods of political chaos where central administration broke down and society was turned upside down?
What is the Intermediate Periods?
200
The rocky and shallow sections along the Nile River. They were impassable by boat, unless it was during the annual inundation.
What are Cataracts
200
The name given to the concept that developed during the Middle Kingdom, which saw one pharaoh in charge with a successor sharing the power to gain experience, allow for a smooth transition and maintenance of the royal blood line.
What is Co- Regency?
200
the Pharaoh who reunited Egypt at the end of the First Intermediate period?
Who is Mentuhotep II?
200
The oval shape symbol that contained a pharaoh's royal name and title was inscribed in hieroglyphics, protective mechanism often seen on tomb walls.
What is a Cartouche?
300
The Dynasties that comprised the old Kingdom
What is the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Dynasties?
300
The fertile region of Lower Egypt where the Nile feeds into the ocean.
What is the Delta?
300
The capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms?
Where was Thebes?
300
The Pharaoh who attempted to change Egyptian religion from polytheism to monotheism and worship of the Aten?
Who was Akhenaten?
300
A Shepherd's tools used as the symbols of divine authority carried by Pharaohs of the Middle and New Kingdoms and and became two of the most prominent items in the royal regalia?
What is the Crook and Flail
400
A governor that was head of each nome and was responsible to the king and vizier during the Old Kingdom. They had jobs such as measuring the annual floods, collecting taxes and administering their Nome so that it functions correctly.
What is a Nomarch?
400
The name the Egyptians gave the desert lands that existed on either side of the Nile. They were difficult to pass and provided the Egyptian civilisation with a reasonable level of isolation from foreign invaders.
What is the Red Lands - Dsrt
400
The people from western Asia who invaded Egypt thus beginning the second Intermediate period. They brought many advantages to Egypt, such as methods of farming, new weapons and even new forms of clothing.
Who are the Hyksos?
400
The Longest reigning pharaoh in Egypt who ruled for 94 years. No clear pharaoh after his reign which led to a vacuum of power and contributed to the collapse of the Old Kingdom.
Who is Pepi II
400
The linen headdress worn by the pharaoh, it represented a lions maine and contained a uraeus cobra on the front?
What is the Nemes?
500
What is is the earliest representation of a king wearing
the White Crown of Upper Egypt and the Red Crown of Lower Egypt.Thus appearing to be celebrating victory over both lands and uniting Egypt.
What is the Narmer Palette?
500
The name of the fertile land on the banks of the Nile River that was flooded during the annual inundation?
What is the Black Lands - Kmrt
500
The Middle Kingdom Dynasties comprise
What is the 11th, 12th and 13th Dynasty?
500
the Pharaoh responsible for the world's first known monumental stone building, the Step Pyramid at Saqqara. Where the Hed Sed festival was held.
Who is Djoser?
500
The War Crown, used from the Second Intermediate Period onward. It was often worn by the Warrior Pharaohs and is used in Egyptian imagery to display their military prowess.