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Egyptian Potpourri
100
Ancient Egypt is located on this continent.
What is Africa?
100
The title of the kings of ancient Egypt.
What is a Pharaoh?
100
Egyptians believed in a term as a life after death.
What is the afterlife?
100
Pictures and other written symbols that stand for ideas. things, and sounds.
What is hieroglyphics?
100
THe head of a man and the body of a lion.
What is the Sphinx?
200
The main source of water for ancient Egyptians, and why this source was so unique as compared with others
What is the Nile River, AND the longest river in the world, or it flows north?
200
Pharaoh's ruled with this kind of power.
What is absolute power?
200
The chief god amongst all the ancient Egyptian gods.
What is Amon-Ra or Ra?
200
An early form of paper made from a reed plant found in marshy areas of the Nile delta.
What is papyrus?
200
THe people who first did battle from chariots.
Who are the Hyksos?
300
The natural phenomenon that occurred yearly benefitting farmers and their crops.
What is flooding?
300
The king found by Howard Carter in 1922.
Who is King Tut?
300
The preserved body of a dead person.
What is a mummy?
300
They formed the largest group of people in Egyptian society.
What are peasants?
300
THe most important organ in the body in the opinion of ancient Egyptians.
What is the heart?
400
A triangular plain at the mouth of a river, formed when sediment is deposited by flowing water and often used as farmland.
What is a delta?
400
Egyptian history is split into three periods.
What are the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms?
400
This deity had the head of a jackal and was in charge of funerals and death and prepared bodies for the afterlife.
What is Anubis?
400
How Egyptian society was organized.
What is a social class pyramid?
400
This pharaoh brought prosperity to Egypt during his long reign. Answer must be exact to get points!
Who is Ramses II?
500
Ancient merchants traveling south towards Nubia would have to stop and travel on foot because of this physical barrier.
What is a cataract?
500
THis ruler came to power after the death of Thutmose II.
Who is Queen Hapshetsut?
500
The usual burial site for a pharaoh. Give example.
What is the pyramid of Giza?
500
The 3 groups situated in the middle of the social pyramid. You must get all 3 EXACTLY to get the points!
What are craftworkers, merchants, and scribes?
500
The name of the body of water that the Nile emptied into.
What is the Mediterranean sea?
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