Geography
This river flows from Sudan into the Mediterranean Sea and helps to irrigate crops.
What is the Nile River?
This invention, thanks to the study of astronomy, helped Egyptians know when to farm their crops.
What is the calendar?
This pharaoh is the most famous, because of the founding of his tomb by Britain archaeologists in 1922.
Who is King Tutankhamen (King Tut)?
These are goods that were not necessary to life, but made it more enjoyable.
What are luxury goods?
To build the pyramids, the Egyptians must have had great knowledge of these ideas.
What is mathematics and engineering?
This is the name of the wide expanse of hot desert land where Egypt is set.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This process of preserving dead bodies was possible thanks to the Egyptians' immense knowledge of anatomy.
What is mummification?
This pharaoh was the first female to rule in Egypt.
Who was Hatshepsut?
This valuable metal was given to Egypt from Kush in exchange for glass, cloth, and jewelry.
What is gold?
This position in the Egyptian social hierarchy was valuable for their writing abilities and many who went to school aspired to this role.
What is scribe?
This is the part of a river which fans out into many different streams based on a build up of silt.
What is a delta?
This mix of reeds mashed into a pulp and flattened formed the material from which we now get the word paper.
What is papyrus?
This pharaoh helped conquer a lot of land in Africa, and western Asia.
Who is Ramses II?
What valuable material did Kush trade to Egypt that was made from elephant tusks?
What is ivory?
This was the reason pharaohs had so much power over Egypt.
This is the length of the Nile River.
What is 3,500 miles?
This mythological creature, built with the pyramids, had a human head and a lion's body, and acted as the guardian to the pyramids.
What is the Sphinx?
This pharaoh united Upper and Lower Egypt by wearing a red and white crown.
Who was Narmer?
This was one resource Egypt had to receive from Kush since they lacked this in the desert with the dry, hot land.
What is wood/cedar wood?
This was the kind of government Egypt used under the pharaoh, which consisted of many government officials carrying out strict rules and regulations.
What is a bureaucracy?
These are the names of sharp rocks and rapid waters that make it difficult to move upstream the Nile.
What are cataracts?
This work of Egyptian literature outlined the religious beliefs and practices to help souls navigate the afterlife.
This was the son of the first female pharaoh.
Who was Thutmose III?
This was one of Kush's major achievements that changed the way we write forever.
What is the alphabet? (Extra double points for Meriotic Script)
These were the kinds of soil that Egyptians referred to as the Black Land and the Red Land.
What is fertile soil (black) and desert soil (red)?