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100
This person can be found at the top of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
Who is the pharaoh?
100
This item is what ancient Egyptians used to write upon.
What is papyrus?
100
The longest river in the world
What is The Nile?
100
The head of the ancient Egyptian government was called this.
What is pharaoh?
100

The first pyramids were constructed during this period.

What is the Old Kingdom?

200
Ancient Egyptian religion is this type.
What is polytheistic or polytheism?
200
Ancient Egyptians used this to communicate on papyrus.
What is hieroglyphics?
200
This large body of water is to the north of Egypt
and provided protection from that direction.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
The pharaoh required all other people
to see the ruler as one of these.
What is a god?
200
A line of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
300
These are the people at the bottom of the social pyramid in ancient Egypt.
Who were unskilled workers?
300
Our word 'paper' comes from this ancient Egypt term?

What is papyrus?


300

This is a geographic formation where the Nile River

meets the Mediterranean Sea.

What is the Nile Delta (or river delta)?

300

These people advised the pharaohs. 

Who are viziers?

300

This form of writing was a form of shorthand for hieroglyphics that used dots and dashes?

What is hieratic script?

400

They believed they were gods.

Why were Egyptians loyal to the pharaoh?

400
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.
400

This extreme geographic land form is to the west of Egypt.

What is the Desert? * Sahara Desert is also correct, but you need to know Western Desert and Eastern Desert.

400

This woman was the first pharaoh of Egypt.

Who is Hatshepsut?

400
There are many of these massive
constructions throughout Egypt.
What are pyramids?
500
People who were able to read and write. They also kept records such as taxes and laws.

Who were scribes?

500
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.
500
The Nile River flows in this direction.
What is north?
500
Modern Egyptian form of government.
What is a democracy?
500

This form of writing used pictures and symbols to represent sounds.

What is hieroglyphs?