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100
dynasty
What is a powerful family or group of people, who retain their power through several generations? SINGLE
100
savanna
What is a flat, grassy, mostly treless plain? HOME RUN!!!
100
City-State
What is a region with a single government and a united group of people? Triple!!
100
Book of the Dead
What is the book of prayers to get to the afterlife? TRIPLE!!
100
Hieroglyphics
What is over 700 pictures used for sounds, ideas, and objects? SINGLE
200
decrees
What is the name of the command or commands from the Pharaoh to be carried out? SINGLE
200
Black Land
What is black silt called that is rich with natural fertilizers? HOME RUN!!
200
intermediary
What is one who acts as a go-between? SINGLE
200
mummy
What is a body that has been dried in salt, rubbed with special oils, and wrapped for burial, taking 70 days? SINGLE
200
Saharah
What is the largest desert in the world, located in Egypt? HOME RUN!!
300
Pyramid
What is the building with 4 triangles built to house the Pharoah's body forever? (house of eternity) HOME RUN!!!
300
Red Land
What is the dry, barren lands of the Sahara Desert? SINGLE
300
Nomes
What is Towns in Egyspt that became capitals of city-states? SINGLE
300
papyrus
What is thetall reedy plant that grows in the Nile River Valley that you make paper from? HOME RUN!!!
300
Emergence
What is the season in ancient Egyptian times when crops were begininng to grow from the earth? HOME RUN!!!
400
Pharaoh
What is the word that means "great house" or the king's palace? DOUBLE
400
Giza
What is the place in Egypt where the great Pyramid is located? TRIPLE!!!
400
bureaucracy
What is the manyworkers and groups that are needed to run government programs? DOUBLE!
400
Inundations
What is the yearly floods that take place at the same time each year? DOUBLE!!
400
cataracts
What is rushing water from waterfalls amd rapids? DOUBLE!!
500
Queen Hapshepsut
Who is the person that made Thutmose III wait 22 years to become Phararaoh of Egypt? SINGLE
500
Nile River
What is longest river in the world and flows north? TRIPLE!!!
500
Vizier
What is a high government official that carries out the commands of the Pharaoh? HOME RUN!!
500
Kemet
What is the Egytian word for BLACK EARTH, meaning fertile soil of the Nile River Valley? TRIPLE
500
delta
What is the land formed by mud and sand deposited at the mouth of a river? HOME RUN!!