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100
What is the longest river in the world?
Nile River
100

What is the biggest and grandest pyramid called?

the Great Pyramid (Great Pyramid of Giza) SWAP POINTS WITH ANY TEAM! If highest- double points

100
What is the Ancient Egyptian form of writing called?
hieroglyphs
100

What is another name for an Egyptian King?

Pharaoh

100
What is an embalmed body wrapped in cloth strips called?
mummy
200
What natural barrier to the West protects Egypt from invasion?
Desert
200

What was placed in the pyramids? What were they used for?

Kings and Queens. Pyramids were used as tombs. 

200
Because the Egyptians knew when the Nile was going to flood every year and that it made the soil rich they became.......
successful farmers
200

Who was the first known woman pharaoh that tried to help rebuild the Egyptian economy?

Hatshepsut

200

Government officials appointed by the pharaoh

bureaucrats

300
What was a major result of the Nile flooding?
made the soil fertile
300
The most important Egyptian god (God of the Sun)
Re
300
a line of rulers from one family is called a
dynasty
300
What Egyptian pharaoh became King when he was 10?
King Tut
300
a reed plant used to make sandals, baskets, river rafts and paper
papyrus
400

wild rapids found on the Nile River are known as

cataracts DOUBLE POINTS

400

Who was the first engineer who built pyramids?

Imhotep

400

Who united upper and lower Egypt?

Narmer

400

The Egyptians thought that the pharaoh was a

deity (god) DOUBLE POINTS

400

___________ death led to the decline of Egypt and the ____________ conqured Egypt. 

Ramses II, Libyans

500
The Nile River is approximately _________miles long
4,000
500
The Great Pyramid of Giza was built for what Pharaoh?
Khufu
500

This type of government has the same political and religious leader. 

theocracy

500
What pharaoh tried to make Egypt Monotheistic?
Amenhotep
500

_________ took control over Egypt and ruled for over 100 years before, _____________ formed and army and drove them out of Egypt. 

Hyksos, Prince Ahmose