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100

The Egyptian's ____________ was divided into three seasons, translated as Flooding, Harvest, and Planting.

What is a calendar?

100

This was an oval shaped object with a name written in the middle in hieroglyphics.

What is a cartouche?

100

This was the process of taking a corpse, emptying all of their insides into canopic jars and preparing them for the afterlife.

What is mummification?

100

This was the highest social class.

What was Pharaoh and the royal family?

200

This was a line of ruler or kings who were all in the same family.

What is a dynasty?

200

These were special containers that contained dead body organs.

What are canopic jars?

200
We discovered how to read hieroglyphics through this, which was something had two other languages on it, Greek and Ancient Egyptian.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
200

This was was determined someone's social class.

What is their wealth?

300

Measuring floodwaters and calculating taxes were used by this.

What is nilometer?

300

This provided protection from invaders in Egypt.

What is the Sahara Desert?

300

These were what Egyptians believed they would be judged off of, contrary to Jesus who said that humans would be judged based off of their relationship with Jesus (Himself).

What are works?

300

This was who was in the second lowest social class.

Who are priests, soldiers, scribes, and artisans?

400

This nickname for Egypt means "well-fed" or "happy."

What is hapi?

400

This was the name of the Egyptian stone coffin.

What is a sarcophagus?

400

These were worn to protect again evil spirits.

What are amulets?

400

This was who was in the lowest social class.

Who are farmers, slaves, merchants, and servants?

500

This fun word transfers water from the Nile for irrigation purposes by using a weight on the opposite side of a bucket.

What is a shadoof?

500

He was considered the greatest Egyptian warrior king.

Who is Rameses II?

500

These were the two natural, geographic features that protected against invaders for Egypt.

What are the Nile River and Sahara desert?

500

This was who was in the second highest social class.

Who are Pharaoh's generals, viziers, and nobles.

600

This was the first woman ruler of Egypt.

Who is Hatshepsut?

600

He was the fist person to translate a portion of hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone.

Who is Jean-Francois Champollion?

600

This is where Khufu built the Great Pyramid.

What is in the valley of Giza?

700

This Greek letter refers to a fan shaped fertile area.

What is delta?

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