First Female Pharaoh
The first female pharaoh of Egypt
What is Hatsheput?
The king of the Egyptian gods
What is Ra/AmunRa?
The central river of Egypt
What is the Nile?
This ancient Greek was known to have been one of the first historians and wrote extensively about Egyptian history
What is Herodotus?
Egypt is located on this continent
What is Africa?
This female pharaoh acted as regent for this young male pharaoh.
What is Thutmose III?
Egyptian gods can be identified as having eternal life by holding one of these
What is an ankh?
The nutrient soil which is left after the flooding of Egypt's river
What is silt?
According to the textbook "Our History", one hundred thousand lash-driven men poured out their blood and sweat for twenty years to build this ancient wonder
What is the Great Pyramid?
During and after mummification, Egyptian pharaohs' internal organs where contained in these jars
What are canopic jars?
To support her legitimacy, this female pharaoh used this Egyptian male word ending title.
What is "su"?
Egyptian gods are known to be holding symbolic objects and represent these types of elements
What is nature elements?
This neighboring civilization interacted extensively with Egypt which was evident with the finding of numerous cuneiform tablets
What is Mesopotamian civilization?
Herodotus' claim that slaves built the pyramids could be considered inaccurate due to his sources being this.
What is secondary sources?
According to Egyptian religion, the heart of a pharaoh was weighed and would enter heaven if the heart was this
What is light?
This female pharaoh was erased from Egyptian history in order to restore order to this Egyptian belief.
What is maat?
This Egyptian god is responsible for writing, counting and wisdom and is represented by the moon
What is Thoth?
This natural barrier provided ancient Egypt protection from the west
What is the (Sahara) desert?
According to Dr. Hawass, slaves did not build Khufu's pyramid since workers were found to have these foods buried with them
What is bread and beer?
This classical civilization conquered and absorbed Egypt ending the civilization
What is the Roman Civilization?
Despite taking the throne by force, this female pharaoh had to overcome skeptics due to this form of gender discrimination.
What is patriarchy?
Hatsheput justified her authority as pharaoh by claiming she was the daughter of this god
What is Amun?
The flow of the Egypt's river flows this direction
What is north?
Dr. Lehrner suggests that paid laborers built Khufu's pyramid due to this hidden message found on the walls of the pharaoh's chamber.
What is "the Friends of the Khufu Gang"?
This type of culture played a significant role in the Ancient Egypt politics
What is religion?