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Geography
Rulers
Religion
Culture
Miscellaneous
100
Large waterfalls and areas of rapids.
What are cataracts?
100
A series of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
100
A dead body preserved in life-like condition.
What is a mummy?
100
Pictures and other symbols that represent things, ideas, and sounds in ancient Egypt.
What is hieroglyphics?
100
The last pharaoh of Egypt.
What is Cleopatra?
200
The desert area on both sides of the Nile River.
What is the Red Land?
200
First pharaoh of Egypt who unified Upper and Lower Egypt.
What is Menes?
200
Site of the Great Pyramids and an ancient Egyptian city.
What is Giza?
200
A scientist who studies the stars.
What is an astronomer?
200
A person who rules for a child until they become of age to rule.
What is a regent?
300
A marshy area at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
300
The pharaoh was worshiped as a living _____.
What is a god?
300
Chief god of the ancient Egyptians.
What is Amon-Re?
300
This was discovered and used to translate hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
300
She was the first women to proclaim herself pharaoh of Egypt.
What is Hatshepsut?
400
Fertile soil left along the banks of the Nile after it flooded.
What is silt?
400
The pyramids of Giza were built during the _____ kingdom.
What is the Old Kingdom?
400
Religion played an important part in Egyptian life because it explained________ ________ to the people.
What are natural events?
400
This core subject was used by the Egyptians to help construct the pyramids.
What is mathematics?
400
What objects tell us a lot about the everyday life of the ancient Egyptians?
What are tomb and temple paintings?
500
The fertile farmland alongside the Nile River.
What is the Black Land?
500
The pharaoh had ___________ ______________ over the all the people of Egypt.
What is absolute power?
500
Egyptian god of the living and the dead.
What is Osiris?
500
The largest social class in ancient Egypt.
What is the peasant class?
500
The first pharaoh of Egypt who was responsible for uniting Upper and Lower Egypt.
What is Menes?