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This Borders Egypt on the east, south and west. Desert, River or Sea
What is desert?
100
A powerful ancient Egyptian ruler was known as this.
What is a pharaoh?
100
Social class with the most people in it. Bureaucrats and government officials, Peasants and farmers, or Priests and Wealthy Egyptians.
What are the peasants (unskilled workers and farmers)?
100
The process of preserving a body after someone has passed away.
What is embalming?
100
Reed plant that Egyptians used as an early form of paper.
What is papyrus?
200
Egypt is located on this continent.
What is Africa?
200
The first ruler of ALL of Egypt, upper and lower.
Who was Narmer?
200
The god of agriculture.
Who is Osiris?
200
Type of Old Kingdom stone tomb in which pharaohs were buried.
What is a pyramid?
200
A writing system with pictures and sound symbols.
What is the hieroglyphics?
300
This resource sustains all Egyptian life.
What is the Nile River?
300
A person who makes written records for government offices, temples and institutions.
What is a scribe?
300
This region is along the southern part of the Nile River.
What is Upper Egypt?
300
Wealthy ancient Egyptians preserved their dead by mummification for this.
What is the after-life?
300
A bucket attached to a long pole used to gather river water.
What is a shadoof?
400
An area of silt near where a river flows into the sea.
What is a delta?
400
A family line of rulers.
What is a dynasty?
400
Fine particles of dirt that and is carried down the Nile River and deposited on the banks in Northern Egypt.
What is silt?
400
Egyptians were fiercely loyal to the pharaoh because they believed he was a this...
What is a god on Earth who protected Egypt?
400
An imaginary creature with the head of a man and the body of a lion. It stands among the pyramids at Giza.
What is the sphinx?
500
The Nile River empties into this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
500
Names historians give to the 3 periods of time in Ancient Egypt.
What are the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom?
500
One of the most powerful rulers in Egypt and also a woman.
Who is Hatshepsut?
500
Osiris, Isis, Horus, Anubis and Ra.
Who are Egyptian gods?
500
The name of the leader for whom The Great Pyramid was built?
Who is Khufu?