Geography
These rocky rapids serve as natural land borders even in the modern day.
What are the Cataracts of the Nile?
These "magical amulets" helped ward off evil spirits that Egyptians believed got people sick.
What is "heka?"
The second-in-command to the Pharaoh.
What is the Vizier?
This was the first pyramid ever constructed.
This people group South of Egypt traded ivory, ebony, and gold.
What are the Nubians?
This desert is known for its "Desert Glass," a rare material that is used in jewelry.
What is the Libyan Desert?
Egyptians would use this process to prepare the body for the afterlife.
This is a "cosmic balance" between the Pharaoh, nobility, craftsmen, and slaves.
What is "ma'at?"
DAILY DOUBLE:
This manuscript recorded all known information about Egyptian medicine for doctors to study and reference.
What is the Ebers Papyrus?
This is a type of government where the Pharaoh is the seat of power in one physical place.
What is a centralized government?
The longest river in the world, and the seed of Egyptian civilization.
What is the Nile River?
DAILY DOUBLE:
This shard of rock was discovered and had a detailed account of the visions of a Pharaoh while he slept.
What is the "Dream Stele?" (100 bonus points: where was the Dream Stele found?)
This is "god's voice" and were educated scribes.
What is "medu neter?"
This type of math helped architects survey land and construct the pyramids.
What is geometry? (100 bonus points: what type of shape helped build the pyramids?)
This is a type of government where power lies with governors in multiple locations.
What is a decentralized government?
This desert of Egypt is connected via the Sinai Peninsula.
What is the Arabian Desert?
The half-human, half-lion statue that is said to grant wishes if you solve riddles.
What is the Sphinx?
This period of Egyptian history is when the "Hyksos" settled and overtook the Egyptians.
What is the Second Intermediate Period?
This school system educated doctors on the practices of natural medicine.
What are the "Per Ankh?"
This era of Egypt is when the original Great Pyramids were constructed.
This sea is connected to the Indian Ocean.
What is the Gulf of Aden?
This is the god of the afterlife, the god of the sun, and the goddess of magic.
This period in Egyptian history was caused by famine and a decentralization of the Pharaoh's power.
What is the First Intermediate Period?
This tablet had three different languages on it, and helped Europeans later "crack the code" in 1822.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This era of Egypt is the true "classical age" where their culture developed into what we study in the modern age.
What is the Middle Kingdom?