Pharaohs & Leaders
Which pharaoh is known for building many of the Pyramids in Egypt?
Who is King Khufu?
What were Egyptian pyramids typically used for?
What are tombs of pharoahs?
Who is the Egyptian sun god?
Who is Ra?
Egyptians relied on this river for water, transportation, and trade.
What is the Nile River?
This mighty ruler is celebrated for his military campaigns and monumental building projects.
Who is Ramses II or Ramses the great?
This elaborate process preserved bodies for the afterlife and is one of Egypt’s most iconic achievements.
What is mummification?
What role in Egyptian Society was seen as equal to a god?
What is a pharaoh?
What name referred to people who could read and write in Ancient Egypt?
What are scribes?
This was the era of stone tools and hunter-gatherers before communities and cities developed.
What is the Paleolithic era or Old Stone Age?
This last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom was known for her political savvy and alliances with Rome.
Who is Cleopatra?
This innovative system harnessed the Nile’s annual flood, enabling the Egyptians to support a thriving civilization in an arid environment.
What is irrigation?
This god became the ruler of the underworld when he was betrayed by his brother.
At the top of Egypt’s social pyramid, this ruler was believed to be both a king and a god.
Who is the pharaoh?
These two rivers fueled life and prosperity in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
This female pharoah influenced Ancient Egypt despite nearly being erased from history by her stepson Thutmose III.
Who is Hatshepsut?
This stone was the key to Great Britain using Ancient Greek to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This nurturing goddess, associated with magic and healing, saved her husband by searching for his body and putting him back together again.
Who is Isis?
These laborers were responsible for building Egypt’s grand pyramids and temples, often working under harsh conditions.
Who are the peasants (or workers/slaves)?
These seafaring people were known for trading, as well as their use of a purple dye made from sea snails.
Who were the Phoenicians?
Which two Roman leaders developed alliances with Cleopatra over the course of her reign?
Who are Julius Caesar and Mark Antony?
Ancient Egyptians developed this early form of paper from a plant.
What is papyrus?
What was the name of the coffin a pharoah's body was kept in? OR Why did they decorate the outside of the coffin?
What is a sarcophagus? OR
They decorated the coffin so that the phaoraoh's spirit could find the body after death.
Ancient Egyptians believed in life after death, so they preserved bodies through this process to prepare them for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
This Persian ruler was known for being kind and merciful, allowing people to practice their religion in peace.
Who is Cyrus the Great?