Ancient Egypt is located on what present day continent?
What is Africa?
100
The title of the kings of ancient Egypt.
What is a Pharaoh?
100
The Egyptians believed in a term now as a life after death. What is this term?
What is the afterlife?
100
Pictures and other written symbols that stand for ideas, things, or sounds?
What is Hieroglyphs or heiroglyphics?
100
Civilization located south of ancient Egypt
What is Nubia?
200
What was the main source of water for the Egyptians and what made this source so unique when compared to others?
What is the Nile River?
What is the longest river in the world or flows north?
200
Egyptian kings ruled with this type of power.
What is absolute power?
200
He is the chief god of all of the ancient Egyptian gods.
Who is Amon-Re or Ray?
200
An early form of paper made from a reed plant found in the marshy areas of the Nile delta; the plant used to make paper.
What is papyrus?
200
This was the woman who was queen regent of Egypt in place of Tutmose III
Who was Hatshepsut?
300
What is the "Black Land" and "Red Land"?
What is Kemet? (dark soil left by Nile's floods)
What is a Desert?
300
This Egyptian king is credited with united both Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is King Menes?
300
What is the preserved body of a dead person?
What is mummification?
300
An economic or cultural arrangement of groups in society.
What is social class or social class pyramid?
400
A triangular plain at the mouth of a river, formed when sediment is deposited by flowing water and is often used as farm land.
What is a delta?
400
Egyptian history is split into three different time periods. What are the names of each of these time periods?
What is the old, middle, and new kingdoms?
400
This was the god of the afterlife
Who is Osiris?
400
This formed the largest group of people in Egyptian society.
Who are the Peasants?
400
This allowed modern historians to understand Hieroglyphics
What is the Rosetta Stone?
500
Ancient merchants would travel south towards Nubia on boat in hopes of trading but would often have to stop and travel by foot because of what physical barrier?
What is cataract?
500
Ancient Egypt is classified as having what style of government?
What is an absolute monarchy or monarchy?
500
What was the usual tomb of a pharaoh and give an example?
What is a pyramid? Pyramids of Giza
500
What was the smallest class in Egypt?
What was the pharoah?
500
How did Hatshepsut justify her leadership?
Dressed as a man, had statues, monuments built for her