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A living god/goddess or king/queen.
What is a pharaoh?
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The river that flows through Egypt and Nubia.
What is the Nile?
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True or False, Egyptians were monotheistic.

False (they were polytheistic).

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What is one reason the Egyptians lived along the Nile River?

What is "for a water source, transportation, irrigation, etc."?

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How many pyramids are there at the Great Pyramids of Giza? a.)1 b.)2 c.)3 d.)5
What is c.)3?
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A person who does not have a permanent home.
What is a nomad?
200
The Nile's delta lets out at this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
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The Egyptian god of the underworld.
Who is Osiris?
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Why did Egyptians focus on mummification for their pharaohs?

What is "for proper transition into the afterlife"?

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How old was King Tut when he became King? a.) 9 b.) 14 c.) 20 d.) 23
What is a.)9?
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The Egyptians created this paper-like material out of reeds from the Nile River.
What is papyrus?
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These fast river rapids can mostly be found in the Nile River Valley.

What are cataracts?

300

Name 3 Egyptian inventions.

What are pyramids, 365 day calendar, reed boats, and papyrus?

300

What was odd about the appearance of Egyptian gods?

What is "they had the face of an animal and the body of a human"?

300

What was the purpose of the pyramids?

What is "for the burial of pharaohs and their loved ones"?

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Egyptians wrote in _____________ while Sumerians (people in Mesopotamia) wrote in ______________.

What are hieroglyphics and cuneiform?

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Name 4 countries the Nile River flows through today.
What are Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and Eritrea?
400
Egyptians did this to their pharaoh's bodies after they died and buried them where?
What are mummify and pyramids?
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What Egyptian queen fell in love with Julius Caesar?

What is Cleopatra?

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The first king/pharaoh who unified Egypt.
Who is Menes?
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Nubians practiced __________, or melting of _________, a special type of rock containing valuable metals.
What are smelting and ore?
500

What desert covers a majority of the land in Egypt?

What is the Sahara Desert?

500

What name was Ramses II also known as?

Who is Ramses the Great?

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Whose largely intact tomb did Howard Carter discover in 1922?

What is King Tut's tomb?

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The capital of Egypt today.
What is Cairo?