Geography
The Nile River Valley
The Nile River Valley
Government
A Unified Egypt
A Unified Egypt
Religion
Life, Death, and Worship
Life, Death, and Worship
Government
A Long-Lasting and Powerful Empire
A Long-Lasting and Powerful Empire
Rulers
The Pharaohs
The Pharaohs
100
This is the river known as the "lifeblood" of Egypt, and treated as a god.
What is the Nile River?
Other acceptable answer: What is the meeting of the Blue Nile and the White Nile Rivers?
100
Locations of Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt, respectively
*Respectively means in the order they are listed, so tell me where is Upper Egypt and where is Lower Egypt, with your answer relating to those areas in order.
Acceptable answers:
Where is southern and northern Egypt?
Where are south and north?
100
The title pharaoh means this.
What is "great house"?
100
The capital of Egypt changed from Memphis to this place at the beginning of the Middle Kingdom.
Where is Thebes?
100
The first pharaoh in Egyptian history.
Who was Narmer?
200
This was the original name for the land we know as Egypt, meaning "black land" for its dark, rich soil.
What is Kemet?
200
The most basic reason Egypt needed to have a unified culture and dynasty.
What was to manage food and land resources?
200
Pharaoh kept the Egyptians united because he was both a human ruler and this.
What is a god/son of god/son of Ra, the sun god?
200
This is what the Middle Kingdom period is known for.
Acceptable answers:
What are the arts and architecture?
What is the Valley of the Kings?
200
She was the first woman pharaoh, and this was the controversy surrounding her being pharaoh.
Who was Hatshepsut, and she had to behave and dress as a man to be taken seriously as ruler.
She ruled in place of her young nephew, Thutmose III, who ruled after she died.
300
This is one way farmers learned to use the Nile's periods of drought after spring flooding.
Acceptable answers:
What is the use of shadoofs?
What is the use of irrigation and canals?
300
How Narmer united Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt.
Acceptable answers:
What is he conquered Lower Egypt?
What is he married a princess of Lower Egypt?
300
This was the name of the book used to prepare people for the afterlife.
What was the Book of the Dead?
300
This is what caused the Middle Kingdom period to come to an end.
What is the invasion of the Hyksos?
300
Pharaoh Tutankahmun's parents, and their story that affected Egypt's religion for a time.
Who were Amenhotep IV and Nefertiti?
Amenhotep changed his god to Aton, and changed his name to Akenaton to reflect that. When he died, Tut changed back to Amun as the God and his name reflected that.
400
The name and for the plant Egyptians used for making various items, including a paper-like material:
Acceptable answers:
What is papyrus?
400
Narmer was the first of 30 of these.
What was 30 dynasties of Egyptian royalty?
400
This was the main reason people and animals were mummified when they died.
Acceptable answers:
What was to be prepared for the afterlife?
What was to enjoy life after death?
What was afterlife was more enjoyable than earthly life?
400
This is when the New Kingdom began.
What is when Ahmose drove out the Hyksos?
400
This pharaoh was a long-reigning, successful, diplomatic ruler.
Who was Ramses II?
500
Explain how the use of papyrus contributed to the culture of the Nile River Valley and Egyptian civilization.
The papyrus that grew along the Nile was made into a paper-like material that allowed scribes to write in hieroglyphics about their laws and customs.
500
The rule of the 30 dynasties splits Egypt's ancient history into these three major time periods.
What are the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom?
500
The Egyptians worshipped structure and order in everything, including in their social structure, which took a sort of "pyramid form". Name the categories and who fit in the categories.
Highest -- pharaoh
2nd highest -- priests and advisors
3rd highest -- traders, artisans, shopkeepers, scribes (educated, trained professionals)
Lowest -- farmers and herders, servants/slaves, unskilled people
500
These features defined the New Kingdom.
Acceptable answers:
What is increased trade?
What are better political agreements with other nations?
What is the addition of land?
500
The pharaohs who ruled after Ramses II were alive when this happened.
What is Egypt declined and was seized by Kush?