WH Final

Category 1

100

The reed from which the Egyptians made paper is 

papyrus

200

The Egyptians made a _______________________by wrapping a dead body in cloth strips to keep it from decaying.

mummy

300

The Egyptians used ________________,which is a kind of picture writing.

hieroglyphics

400

The Egyptians called their king or ruler a _____________________.

Pharaoh

500

________________was the god-king who unified Upper and Lower Egypt and began the Old kingdom.

Menes

Category 2

100

• ________________was the Egyptian sun god.

ra

200

• _______________was the first women pharaoh

Hatshepsut

300

• __________________was the pharaoh who enlarged the Egyptian empire to its greatest size

Thutmose III

400

• ______________________was the last great ruler in Egypt

Ramses III

500

• The Egyptian pharaoh ________________believed in only one god.

Ikhnaton

Category 3

100

• Upper Egypt was the _______________part of Egypt.

Southern

200

• Lower Egypt was the ____________part of Egypt.

Northern

300

• The Egyptians thought their rulers were ________________.

Gods

400

• Building a pyramid took about _________________ years.

20

500

• The ___________________invaded Egypt in 630 B.C.

Hyskos

Category 4

100

• The Egyptians built tall _______________, temples and pyramid.

Statues

200

An ancient _________________ describes the Egyptians interest in medicine.

Scroll

300

The Egyptians decorated their temples with ________________________

drawings

400

• The Egyptians used _________________to survey their land.

geometry

500

Why was the Nile River so important to the Egyptians?

crops, irrigation

Category 5

100

What year did the New kingdom begin

1600

200

What city was the most wonderful  city in the ancient world

Thebes

300

What are the people called that wrote things down? 

scribes

400

Who defeated Egypt?

Alexander the Great

500

Who killed themselves in order to not have to surrender?

Queen Cleopatra