Category 1: Egyptian History
Ancient Egyptian civilization lasted for more than this many years.
What is 3,000 years?
Despite its name, this region of ancient Egypt was located in the southern part of the country.
What is Upper Egypt?
Egyptians believed their rulers served as intermediaries between humans and these supernatural beings.
Who are the gods?
Ancient Egyptians used this unit of measurement, based on the length of a forearm, when constructing buildings and pyramids.
What is the cubit?
Most ordinary ancient Egyptians worked in this occupation, producing food for the population.
What is farming?
Around 3100 BC, these two regions were united into a single Egyptian kingdom.
What are Upper and Lower Egypt?
This river provided the water and fertile soil necessary for Egyptian civilization to develop.
What is the Nile River?
Egyptian rulers built elaborate tombs and filled them with valuable possessions to prepare for this existence after death.
What is the afterlife?
By combining mathematics and astronomy, Egyptians developed this system of measuring a year.
What is a 365-day solar calendar?
Ancient Egyptians made a paper-like writing material from this plant that grew along the Nile.
What is papyrus?
This Egyptian ruler is traditionally credited with uniting Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Narmer (Menes)?
Egyptian engineers developed these three types of structures or systems to control and distribute water for agriculture.
What are dams, canals, and irrigation systems?
This preservation process helped prepare a deceased person's body for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
Unlike formal hieroglyphics, this cursive form of Egyptian writing was commonly used for everyday documents.
What is hieratic writing?
This group of educated professionals was responsible for recording laws, taxes, government information, and religious texts.
Who were scribes?
This famous Egyptian queen formed political alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.
Who is Cleopatra VII?
This triangular-shaped region in northern Egypt was formed where the Nile River divided into branches before reaching the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile Delta?
This Egyptian god, often depicted with the head of a jackal, was associated with embalming and protecting the dead.
Who is Anubis?
This famous artifact, discovered in 1799, helped scholars decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This powerful female pharaoh ruled during the New Kingdom and sponsored major building projects and a famous trading expedition to Punt.
Who was Hatshepsut?