Hieroglyphs
The Afterlife
Social Pyramid
Geography
Vocabulary
100

This is how many Hieroglyph characters there are. (not exact)

What is over 2,000?

100

This is what the pyramids were created for.

What are tombs for Pharaohs?

100

This is the group with the least amount of people on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.

What are the Pharaohs?

100

This is the continent that Egypt is found in.

What is Africa?

100

This is the practice of one person owning another person.

What is slavery?

200

This is the direction that Hieroglyphs are read (when not being changed by animal symbols).

What is right to left?

200

This is what the process of preparing a body for the afterlife was called.

What is embalming? (Mummification or mummies also works)

Bonus (+50 points if you got embalming)

200

This is the group that has the most people in it on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.

What are the slaves?

200

This is the river that ancient Egypt settled on.

What is the Nile River?

200

This is the title used by the rulers of ancient Egypt.

What is Pharaoh?

300

This artifact was used to translate Hieroglyphs for the first time.

What is the Rosetta Stone?

300

This was the one organ that was left in the body after people died.

What is the heart?

300

This is the group that is immediately above the slaves on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.

What are the farmers?

300

This is the continent that is north of Africa.

What is Europe?

300

This is the class of people who knew how to read and write.

What are scribes?

400

This is the name of simplified Hieroglyphs.

What is demotic writing?

400

This is the purpose of little statues placed in tombs.

What are servants in the afterlife?

400

This is the group that is immediately underneath the Pharaoh on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.

What are government officials?

400

This is the direction that the Nile River flows.

What is North?

400

This is what a religion that believes in many gods is called.

What is polytheistic (polytheism)?

500

This is what the word "Hieroglyph" means.

What is "holy writing"? ("Sacred writing")

500

This is the amount of time it took to prepare a body for the afterlife.

What is 70 days?

500

These are the five groups that are in the middle of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid. (Name 3 groups)

What are the soldiers, scribes, merchants, and artisans, and priests?

500

This is the name of the desert that Egypt is in.

What is the Sahara Desert?

500

This is the ancient Egyptian word for a coffin.

What is a sarcophagus?