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105
This person can be found at the top of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
Who is the pharaoh?
105
This item is what ancient Egyptians used to write upon.
What is papyrus?
105
The longest river in the world
What is The Nile?
105
The head of the ancient Egyptian government was called this.
What is pharaoh?
105
This invention helped farmers with irrigation
What is a shadoof?
197
Ancient Egyptian religion is this type.
What is polytheistic or polytheism?
197
Ancient Egyptians used this to communicate on papyrus.
What is hieroglyphics?
197
This large body of water is to the north of Egypt
and provided protection from that direction.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
197
The pharaoh required all other people
to see the ruler as one of these.
What is a god?
197
A line of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
297
These are the people at the bottom of the social pyramid in ancient Egypt.
Who were unskilled workers?
297
In addition to making paper, papyrus was also used in this manner.
What is making sandals, baskets, and rafts.
*If you named one of these items, you get the points.
297
This is a geographic formation where the Nile River
meets the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile Delta (or river delta)?
297
One of the two types of governments
that made up the blended ancient Egyptian government.
What is monarchy or theocracy?
297
These are wild, dangerous rapids located in the Nile River.
What are cataracts?
397
Farmers used this annual occurrence to help them grow their produce.
What is the annual flooding of the Nile River?
397
Ancient Egyptians were very good with medicine and science.
This means of preserving their dead is one example of
their skills.
What is mummification or embalming.
397
This extreme geographic land form is to the west of Egypt.
What is the Western Desert? * Sahara Desert is also correct, but you need to know Western Desert and Eastern Desert.
397

This woman was the last ancient Egyptian pharaoh.

Who is Cleopatra?

397
There are many of these massive
constructions throughout Egypt.
What are pyramids?
505
In addition to the annual flooding of the Nile River,
ancient and modern Egyptian farmers still use this
technology in their farming.
What is irrigation?
505
This is one of the mathematical innovations
of the ancient Egyptians still in use today.
What is the 365 day calendar
... or... the base 10 number system?

(Either answer works, you should know both!)

Our textbook also mentions geometry.
505
The Nile River flows in this direction.
What is north?
505
Modern Egyptian form of government.
What is a democracy?
505
This geographic land form is to the
east of the Nile River and is still part of Egypt.
What is the Sinai Peninsula?