Section 1
What region in the Fertile Crescent has the name that means "between the rivers"?
Mesopotamia
What were Egyptian kings called?
Pharaohs
What was the name of the Egyptian writing system?
Hieroglyphics
The God most Egyptians related to and he was the husband of Isis, and killed by his brother Set
Osiris
What month is national Trivia Day in?
January
A hierarchy is a system of what?
Ranking officials in the government
A waterfall, like those on the Nile, are called what?
Cataracts
What did the Egyptians rely on for information about the afterlife?
The Book of the Dead
What was the name of the Egyptian Sun God, where kings believed they had the right to rule?
How many US states border the Gulf of Mexico
Five
What was the name of the two rivers that flow through Mesopotamia?
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Who supervised the business of government in Egypt's Old Kingdom?
Vizier(Think Jafar from Aladdin
According to the Ancient Egyptians, what happened to sinners after death?
They would be fed to the crocodile-shaped Eater of the Dead in the underworld
Akhenaton
What is the world's largest ocean?
Pacific Ocean
What was the name of the poem that described a great flood that destroyed the world?
The Epic of Gilgamesh
What were the three names for the kingdoms in Ancient Egypt?
Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms
Mummification is the preservation of what?
Bodies
What was the name of the first female ruler of Egypt?
Hatshepsut
Maine
What is the name of the present-day country that has another name of Asia Minor?
How many years did it take to build the Great Pyramid of Khufu?
20-30
When judged, what did Osiris use to weigh (2 things) to judge whether or not a person would go to the Happy Field of Food or the Underworld?
Ramses II
Who won the first World Series?
The Boston Red Sox