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Old Kingdom
Middle Kingdom
New Kingdom
Contributions
Grab Bag
100
Process used to preserve the bodies of the dead.
What is embalming?
100
These are the people who were jealous of the pharaohs and took away their power.
Who are government officials?
100
Type of writing in which pictures stand for words.
What is hieroglyphics?
100
Paper made from reeds.
What is papyrus?
100
A machine that lifts water from the Nile into basins.
What is a shadoof?
200
This is where most Egyptians lived in the Old Kingdom.
What is in villages on large estates?
200
Pharaoh who defeated the Hyksos.
Who is Amose?
200
Most powerful god in the New Kingdom.
What is Amon-Re?
200
Number of days in an Egyptian calendar.
What is 365?
200
Only female pharaoh.
Who is Hatshepsut?
300
Ruler who united Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Narmer?
300
Burial site of pharaohs of the Middle Kingdom.
What are tombs cut into the cliffs?
300
Temples were for worship and this.
What are industry or industrial centers?
300
Another term for measuring the land.
What is survey?
300
Area of Egypt where the Nile flows into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Lower Egypt?
400
God of harvest and eternal life.
What is Osiris?
400
The reason the Hyksos were able to conquer Egypt.
What are their bronze and iron weapons and horse-drawn chariots?
400
Young pharaoh succeeded by Akhenaton.
Who is Tutankhamen?
400
Egyptian number system is based on this.
What is the number 10?
400
The amount of time passed between the Old Kingdom and the final Assyrian conquest.
What is about 2,000 years?
500
Goddess who ruled over the land of the dead.
What is Isis?
500
The reason the Middle Kingdom came to an end.
What is the Hyksos invaded?
500
Both names of the pharaoh who tried to establish a new religion.
Who is Amenhotep IV and Akhenaton?
500
The two major fields/areas of contributions.
What are medicine and mathematics?
500
This is how long the Nile River is.
What is 4,145 miles or 6,671 km?