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The Bible character who became a vizier
Who is Joseph?
100
The desert that covers most of Egypt
What is the Sahara Desert?
100
The season when crops are harvested.
What is Harvest season?
100
When this was found, it was the key to unlocking ancient Egyptian writing.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
100
Ancient Egyptian writing using pictures
What are hieroglyphics?
200
The only woman pharoah
Who is Hatshepsut?
200
The world's longest river?
What is the Nile?
200
The season when no work can be done in the fields.
What is the Flood season?
200
A time of serious shortage of food.
What is a famine?
200
A monument with the head of a man & body of a lion.
What is the Great Sphinx?
300
The pharoah whose tomb revealed much about Egypt
Who is Tutankhamen? (King Tut)
300
The world's second largest continent?
What is Aftrica?
300
The season when water slowly leaves the fields and men work on irrigation and planting.
What is Planting season?
300
The title given to an Egyptian king.
What is Pharaoh?
300
The large stone structure built as a tomb for King Khufu.
What is The Great Pyramid?
400
The king who united Upper & Lower Egypt
Who is Menes?
400
Also known as "The Gift of the Nile."
What is Egypt?
400
Occurs between June- Sept.
What is Flood season?
400
This was the secretary to the ruler in a court.
What is a scribe?
400
A tall, pointed pillar representing Ra.
What is an obelisk?
500
The first pharoah
Who is Akhenaton?
500
Located near Thebes- it is where the tombs of many pharaohs have been found.
What is the "Valley of the Kings?"
500
Occurs between Oct.-Feb.
What is Planting season?
500
These were two reasons Egypt declined in power.
What is 1) They had no iron to make strong weapons. 2) They began fighting among themselves.
500
An irrigation device used by the Egyptians
What is a shadoof?