What is a system of writing made up of picture symbols developed by the ancient Egyptians?
Hieroglyphics
100
What was used to help us understand the Egyptian writings containing Egyptian and Greek on it?
The Rosetta Stone
100
What is the term Egyptians used for their kings?
Pharaoh
100
True or False, cats, also known as "Mau", were considered sacred in Ancient Egypt?
True
200
What is the southern part of Ancient Egypt called?
Upper Egypt
200
What is a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, especially one built of stone as a royal tomb?
Pyramid
200
Who writes and keeps track of records for the Egyptians?
Scribes
200
What Egyptian pharaoh's tomb was found in 1922 making him one of the most famous pharaohs (also known as King Tut)?
Tutankhamun
200
What were the original two large kingdoms before Egypt was united?
Lower and Upper Egypt
300
What is a mixture of tiny bits of rock and soil deposited by a river that would have been found in Lower Egypt?
Silt
300
What are the social groups called including pharaohs, vizier, high priests and nobles, priests, engineers, doctors, scribes, craftsmen, slaves and farmers in a order of importance?
Ancient Egypt Social Classes
300
True or False, most of the Egyptians were able to read and write.
False, most of the Egyptians were unable to read and write
300
Who was the first women pharaoh?
Hatshepsut
300
What was the name of the process developed by ancient Egyptians of preserving a person's body after death?
Embalming
400
What is the largest of the Egyptian pyramids and still stands today?
Great Pyramid of Giza
400
What is a chamber that is used as a grave?
Tomb
400
What collection of spells/prayers did the Egyptians study to have life after death?
The Book of the Dead
400
What kind of people were the lowest in the Ancient Egyptian Social Classes?
Servants and Slaves
400
What is the body of a person (or an animal) that has been preserved after death?
Mummy
500
What direction does the Nile River flow?
North
500
What did the Ancient Egyptians invent that we use today while brushing our teeth and it is usually used with a toothbrush?
Toothpaste
500
What did scribes sometimes use which were faster and shorter forms of hieroglyphics used on papyrus?
Hieratic
500
What gender or genders wore makeup?
Male and Females
500
Cleopatra was not Egyptian, but what was she?
Cleopatra was actually part of a long line of Greek Macedonians