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This person was in charge of keeping records in ancient Egypt.
What is a scribe?
100
This was the process used to preserve bodies.
What is embalming?
100
This is a line of rulers from the same family in Egypt.
What is a dynasty?
100
This was the first woman to rule as a pharaoh.
What is Hatshepsut?
100
This is one of the highest jobs in ancient Egypt... just below a pharaoh.
What is a priest or noble?
200
This is a policitcal unit that includes a city and its nearby farmland.
What is a city-state?
200
This is a body that has been dried out to prevent decay.
What is a mummy?
200
This is the process which determines the order in which members of a royal family inherit the throne.
What is succession?
200
Hatshepsut built this, a 4-sided shaft with a pyramid-shaped top, to proclaim her glory.
What is an obelisk?
200
Astronomy helped ancient Egyptians develop these..
What is a calendar?
300
The Egyptian religion was ________, which meant to worship many gods.
What is polytheistic?
300
This is what Pharoah Akhenaton tried to change in Egypt.
What is religion?
300
Egyptians used this in order to spread water across their lands.
What is a shaduf?
300
This is how Hatshepsut's reign ended.
What is no one knows how it ended?
300
This is the system that involved bartering. Farming, hunting, mining, or trading?
What is trading?
400
This is the experience Egypt had under Ramses II.
What is peaceful or stable?
400
True or false. Egyptians created the wheel.
What is false?
400
True or false? Egyptians created the 365 day calendar.
What is true?
400
True or false? Egyptians used herbs for medicines.
What is true?
400
Which "class" was the lowest on the social pyramid?
What is laborers and slaves?
500
Who was above laborers and slaves on the social pyramid?
Who are farmers?
500
Which social class is just below priests and nobles?
What are scribes and government officials?
500
What social class is between scribes and farmers?
Who are craftspeople and merchants?
500
DAILY DOUBLE WORTH 1000 points. Describe, in order, the mummification process. 100 points per step (8 steps) and 1000 points if you get all 8.
What is... Wash the body Remove the organs Fill the body with herbs Dry out the body with natron. Massage the body with oils. Pad with cloth to make it look life-like. Wrap the body. Place in coffin.
500
How do you spell Queen _________'s name?
What is Hatshepsut?