River which brought life to the Ancient Egyptians.
What is the Nile River?
100
6 waterfalls that break up the flow of the Nile River.
What is a cataract?
100
In ancient Egyptian culture, it is a preserved body.
What is a mummy?
100
This geographical feature made Nubian different than Egypt.
What are tall cliffs of granite, rocky soil?
200
Originally from Massachusetts, this President of the US was assasinated 50 years ago.
Who is President John F. Kennedy?
200
A triangular area of soil at the mouth of a river that looks like fingers spread out
What is a delta?
200
Farmers worked on the pyramids during the flooding of the Nile. How were the workers paid?
What is food or grain?
200
King for whom the Great Pyramid at Giza was built.
Who is Khufu?
200
Parts of Nubia make up this present day African nation.
What is Sudan?
300
The president before Barack Obama.
Who is George W. Bush
300
A valuable crop that Egyptians grew and they used its stems to make paper.
What is papyrus?
300
According to legend, this king is said to have united lower and upper Egypt.
Who is King Menes?
300
Because of the constant need for workers to remain at the work site to build pyramids, a workers' village was built on the west bank of the Nile across from Thebes.
What is Deir el-Medina?
300
After the New Kingdom pharaohs regained power, this king took back Nubia.
Who is Thutmose III?
400
King of Babylon who restored Babylon to its grandeur; some say he built the Hanging Gardens and the enormous ziggurat at Babylon.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
400
Instrument Egyptians used to measure the level of the Nile.
What is a Nilometer?
400
A very powerful pharaoh who reigned from 1498 BC until 1483 BC. She is known for encouraging trade expeditions and accomplishing many building projects.
Who is Queen Hatshepsut?
400
Before pyramids, tombs were built as benches and not pyramids.
What is a mastabas?
400
This discovery made possible the translation of Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
500
Process by which plants are able to manufacture their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
500
The special time of the year that Egyptians celebrated the flooding of the Nile.
What is Inundation?
500
French scholar who decoded the Rosetta Stone.
Who is Jean Champollion?
500
A box like coffin often made of stone and decorated. Many times it looked like the person who was to be buried in it.
What is a sarcophagus?
500
In ancient Egypt, explain what was meant by "black land" and "red land".
What is very fertile land and what is dry, desert land?