This is the name of the river that brought life to Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
100
This is the modern name for Kush.
What is Nubia?
100
This is the northern region of Egypt that is located downriver. The Nile Delta is located in this region and so is two-thirds of Egypt's fertile farmland.
What is Lower Egypt?
100
This is the most recognizable pharaoh because his tomb was the only one that was not robbed.
Who is King Tutankhamen, or King Tut?
200
This is a stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics, Greek, and a later form of Egyptian writing that allowed historians to understand ancient Egyptian writing.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
200
Name 2 Egyptian gods. (or 100 points if you can name 1)
What is : Ra, Osiris, Isis, Horus, Anubis?
200
They were the biggest influence on Kush's culture.
What is Egypt?
200
This is the southern region of Egypt. The land there is mostly desert.
What is Upper Egypt?
200
This pharoah married her half-brother and when he died, she dressed as a man and called herself a king.
Who is Queen Hatshepsut?
300
This is a long-lasting, paper-like material made from reeds.
What is papyrus?
300
Tell 3 important facts about the Nile River (or 100 points for each fact)
What is : 1. The Nile is the longest river in the world.
2. The Nile protected Egypt's from invaders from the south. 3. The silt from the Nile made the land ideal for farming. 4. Egypt is called the gift of the Nile. 5. The Nile brought life to Egypt.
300
She is believed to be the first woman to rule Kush.
Who is Queen Shanakhdakheto?
300
During this kingdom, most of the pyramids were built and the pharaoh was both king and a god. The people had to worship the same gods.
What is the Old Kingdom?
300
This famous female pharaoh was the last pharaoh of Egypt. She committed suicide with her Roman lover, Mark Anthony, to avoid being taken prisoner for the death of Julius Caesar.
Who is Cleopatra (VII) ?
400
This is an imaginary creature with the body of a lion and the head of other aninals or humans.
What is a sphinx?
400
This is Egypt's social order or structure. (in order from the highest class to the lowest class)
What is : 1. pharaoh 2. nobles and priests 3. scribes and craftspeople 4. farmers, servants, and slaves
400
This is the name of the written language that was developed by the people of Kush.
What is Meroitic?
400
During this period, or kingdom, Egypt reached the height of its power and glory and conquest and trade made the pharaohs very wealthy.
What is the New Kingdom?
400
This pharaoh is one of the most famous pharaohs of the Old Kingdom, best known for the monuments that were built to honor him. One, the Great Pyramid near Giza is the largest pyramid ever built.
Who is Khufu?
500
This is the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.
What is engineering?
500
Name all four of Egypt's natural barriers and the side they protect. (or get 100 points for each one you can name)
What is : Mediterranean on the North
Red Sea on the East
Cateracts in the Nile on the South
The Sahara desert on the West
500
This industry, or resource, that Kushites traded with other regions helped make Kush a very rich and successful kingdom.
What is iron?
500
This is the name of the people who ruled Egypt for 200 years durung the Middle Kingdom.
Who are the Hyksos?
500
This queen was married to King Tut's father-in-law and she is best known for her beauty.