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100
Flat, fan-shaped land made of silt, where a river flows into a larger body of water.
What is a delta?
100
The longest river in the world and total water source for the Egyptians.
What is the Nile River?
100
King of Upper Egypt who united Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Menes?
100
Nicknamed "the Pyramid Age"
What is the Old Kingdom?
100
Found by Napoleon and broke the Hieroglyphic code.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
200
The ruler of ancient Egypt.
Who is the pharaoh?
200
Fertile lands along both sides of the Nile River that enable farming.
What are the black lands?
200
Egyptian pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid.
Who is Khufu?
200
Time of King Tutenkamen and Ramses II
What is the New Kingdom?
200
Weighing of the heart and a feather.
What is the test to determine moving on into the afterlife?
300
The ancient Egyptian system of writing using symbols to stand for letters, sounds, or ideas.
What is hieroglyphics?
300
The capital city located in Lower Egypt.
What is Memphis?
300
A pharaoh known for his military genius.
Who is Thutmose III?
300
Known as Egypt's Golden Age.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
300
Faced one of the cardinal directions.
What are the triangular shaped sides of the pyramid?
400
A reed plant growing alongside the Nile, that the ancient Egyptians used for writing and making paper.
What is papyrus?
400
The location of the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx.
What is Giza?
400
Most powerful god who gave life to the earth.
Who is Ra?
400
Period ended when Egypt was conquered by the Hyksos.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
400
A hook is used to dislodge and then allowed to drain from the body and discarded.
What is the brain during the mummification process?
500
A device used to lift water into the ancient Egyptians fields.
What is a shadoof?
500
Ancient city in Upper Egypt that became its capital in the New Kingdom.
What is Thebes?
500
Pharaoh who tried to introduce monotheism to ancient Egypt.
Who is Akhenaton?
500
Egypt expanded its borders and became a world power.
What is the New Kingdom?
500
Used as a natural antibiotic in ancient Egypt.
What is an onion?