Vocabulary
Gods
Writing and Building
Tomb Raiders
Geography
Pharaohs
Meaning of the Hieroglyphics
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100
This is a series of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
100
These people at the top of the Egyptain Social Hierarchy were also considered gods.
Who are pharoahs
?
100
Egyptians' knowledge of these building and construction principles helped them to build the pyramids.
What is engineering?
100
Tombs were filled with art, jewelry, furniture, and other treasures because ancient Egyptians had this omni-important religious belief.
What is the Afterlife?
100
This is a triangle shape of land at the base of a river.
What is a delta?
100
She dressed as a man and is known for exampanding trade and for her support of arts & architecture.
Who was Hapshepsut?
100
This is how the Rosetta Stone came by it's name.
What is the name of the city where the stone was found?
100
This was the capital of Egypt during the Middle Kingdom.
What is Thebes?
100
The city to the south that eventually invades Egypt.
What is Kush?
100
This god became the mummification processer.
Who was Anubis?
100
These are 4 sided figures with a needle or point at the top.
What is an obelisk?
100
The size and shape of the pyramids showed this about the pharaoh buried inside.
What is how important that pharaoh was ?
100
This is the peninsula that sits directly east of the Red Sea.
What is the Sinai Peninsula?
100
He is the pharaoh who tried to start a new religion based on one deity, Aton.
Who was Amenhotep IV?
100
This is the term we use to mean the unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, etc. of one people or society by members of another and typically more dominant people or society
What is cultural appropriation?
100
This was the Egyptian River god
What was Hapi?
100
These water rapids made it hard to navigate and transport goods on the Nile.
What are cataracts?
100
He was the sun god.
Who was Amon-Re or Re
100
This is the Egyptian writing system.
What is heiroglyphics?
100
He discovered King Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922.
Who is Howard Carter?
100
The two main territories of Egypt that were unified under Menes.
What are upper and lower Egypt?
100
He is considered Egypt's 1st pharaoh.
Who is Menes?
100
This was the name given to the rock that helped humanity decipher hieroglyphs. It is the most visited object in the British Museum.
What was the Rosetta Stone?
100
This female Pharaoh increased trade in Egypt and supported the arts and architectural projects.
Who was Hatshepsut?
200
This is the process that a dead Pharaoh was put through that preserved the body for mummification.
What is embalming?
200
She was the moon and magic goddess.
Who is Isis?
200
These writers of ancient Egyptian were so respected that they didn’t have to pay taxes.
What are scribes?
200
He was the first great engineer who built the pyramids.
What was Imhotep?
200
This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
200
He was the most famous Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Who was Khufu?
200
He is credited with decoding the Rosetta Stone.
Who is Jean Champollion?
200
This is the term to refer to any religion that has multiple dieties (gods).
What is polytheism?
300
This is the mythical creature with the head of a human and body of a lion.
What is a sphynx?
300
He was the Egyptian god of wisdom.
Who is Thoth?
300
This is the plant based paper ancient Egyptians wrote on.
What is papyrus?
300
This is the process of preserving a body for the after life in Anc. E
What is mummification?
300
This was the capital city of Ancient Egypt for a long time.
What is Memphis?
300
This pharaoh is best remembered for being a great warrior & builder. He completed the temple of Karnak.
Who was Ramses the Great?
300
These are the two countries that fought over who got to keep the Rosetta Stone? (Hint: neither country was Egypt!)
What are France and Great Britain (England or UK ok too)?
300
This is the term we use when we refer to a government in which the leader is both a religious leader and the government leader.
What is a theocracy?
400
These are grasslands in a tropical or subtropical region.
What is savannah?
400
He was the god of the underworld.
Who is Osiris?
400
This was the key to the decoding of the ancient Egyptian language.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
400
A temples spirit is known by this 2 letter word.
What is KA?
400
This body of water separates Europe from Africa.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
Pharaohs had important families of generals, priests, scribes and doctors all working for them. These important people in society became known as this.
Who were nobles?
400
These are the 3 languages the Rosetta Stone was written in.
What are Ancient Egyptian, Egyptian Demotic Script, and Ancient Greek?
400
This body of water separates Europe from Africa.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?