This desert, which takes up most of northern Africa, is the largest in the world.
What is the Sahara Desert?
100
This geographic feature is truly the only reason that the ancient Egyptian culture existed.
What is the Nile River?
100
His name meant "Great House".
Who was Pharaoh?
100
The first "paper" was made by the ancient Egyptians from this plant.
What is papyrus?
100
This is the second largest continent in the world.
What is Africa?
200
This sea is located between the Arabian Peninsula and the continent of Africa.
What is the Red Sea?
200
This landform forms a land bridge between the continent of Africa and the continent of Asia.
What is the Sinai Peninsula?
200
This was the position of "Overseer of All Works of the King."
What is the the vizier?
200
This was the name given to the land by the ancient Egyptians because of the great difference between the land around the Nile and the land of the desert.
What is Red Land/Black Land?
200
This city is the capital of modern-day Egypt.
What is Cairo?
300
This is a landform built up over thousands of years at the mouth of the Nile River.
What is the Nile Delta?
300
Before the two countries making up Egypt joined into one, they were called by these names.
What are Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt?
300
This king was believed to be the first to rule over both Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who was Menes?
300
This statue has the head of a man and the body of a lion.
What is the Great Sphinx?
300
This important river in central Africa flows west to empty into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Congo River?
400
This famous location near the city of Thebes was the burial location of many of Egypt's pharaohs.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
400
This city is where a stone was found that unlocked the mystery of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing.
What is Rosetta?
400
This important tomb in the Valley of the Kings was not discovered until 1922.
What is King Tut's (or Tutankhamen's) tomb?
400
At one time this tomb, built for King Khufu, stood over 480 feet tall and contained over 2,000,000 stone blocks, each weighing 2 ½ tons.
What is the Great Pyramid?
400
This mountain is not really part of a mountain chain but it is the continent of Africa’s highest peak.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
500
This city was the capital of the ancient country of Egypt for 1000 years before the capital was moved to Thebes.
What is Memphis?
500
This is the name of a city that was dedicated to the worship of the sun.
What is Heliopolis?
500
She was the only woman pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
Who was Queen Hatshepsut?
500
These rock beds in rivers that produce waterfalls helped protect Ancient Egypt from enemies who would travel up the Nile to attack.
What are cataracts?
500
This desert is in the southern part of the continent of Africa.