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Blue Nile
White Nile
Leaders
100
This is a series of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
100
A thin paper-like material made from plants and used to write upon.
What is papyrus?
100
The organs of the body were mummified and placed in these.
What are canopic jars?
100
The nile river flows into this large body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
100
This group was at the top of the power pyramid.
Who are the pharoahs?
200
Egyptian kings were called this.
What is a pharoah?
200
Egyptian writing.
What are hierogyphics?
200
This is what life after death was called by the Egyptians?
What is the afterlife?
200
Another name for a craftsperson.
What is an artisan?
200
This group is just under the pharoahs on the power pyramid.
What are nobles and government officials?
300
Rich fertile soil deposited after the Nile flooded.
What is silt?
300
There are three of these located in the Egyptian city of Giza.
What are pyramids?
300
This great pharoah greatly expanded Egypt's territory.
Who is Thutmose III?
300
A person who studies the stars and other heavenly bodies.
What is an astronomer?
300
This group is just above peasants and common workers on the power pyramid.
What are merchants, skilled workers, and artisans?
400
Where a river flows into the sea and forms a triangular-shaped area.
What is a delta?
400
This is what a mummy is.
What is dead body removed of its organs, preserved, then wrapped in cloth before burial?
400
This women was known as a powerful Pharoah and regent to Thutmose III.
Who is Hatshepsut?
400
This group is at the bottom of the power pyramid.
What are peasants and common workers?
500
Rock filled rapids on a river
What are cataracts.
500
Someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule on his/her own.
What is a regent?
500
This led to the discovery what Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
500
This is the ceremony which would determine whether you went on to the afterlife or were eaten by a monster.
What is the weighing of the heart against a feather?
500
This is the art of creating medecines from plants
What is herbalism?