Egypt
This was the ancient capital of Egypt.
What is Memphis?
Where the Phoenician purple dye came from.
What are snails?
King Solomon was visited by this ancient queen.
Who is Queen Sheba or Queen Saba?
This is the only remaining Seven Wonder of the World.
What is the sphinx?
A process used to preserve the body of someone who has died.
This aquatic plant was essential to Egyptian life.
What is papyrus?
These were the most important tools of navigation for the Phoenicians.
What are stars and landmarks?
What is the Great Rift Valley?
This was the first female pharaoh.
Who is Hatshepsut?
a fertile, fan-shaped land mass created where the Nile empties into the Mediterranean Sea
What is the delta?
This king united Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Menes?
This is what Phoenicians used sand to make.
What is glass?
Who is Mansa Musa?
This man discovered the tomb of King Tut?
Who is Howard Carter?
The way a country's people manage money and resources for the production of goods and services
What is an economy?
These are four uses for papyrus.
What are paper, baskets, sandals, perfume, medicine, rope?
The rocky land and limited space prevented the Phoenicians from doing this.
This is the second largest desert on Earth.
What is the Sahara?
This was the name of the game that many ancient Egyptians played where you move pieces to the top of a palm tree.
What is Hounds and Jackals?
the joining of Upper and Lower Egypt
What is unification?
This man translated the Rosetta Stone.
Who is Jean Francois Champollion?
This is how many letters were in the Phoenician alphabet.
What is 22?
These are three disadvantages to nomadic desert travel.
What are 600 foot tall sand dunes, strong winds, and extreme heat?
This man financed the quest for finding ancient pyramids and tombs. He died soon after King Tut's tomb was found.
Who is Lord Carnarvon?
how Egyptian society was shaped
What is the social pyramid?