The Nile is supremely important because it allowed this activity to flourish in the desert regions in ancient times.
What is agriculture?
100
Pyramids are a very elaborate type of this structure which is used to bury the dead.
What is a tomb?
100
Perhaps the most famous of all the pharaohs, this king started his reign at the age of 9.
Who is King Tut? (Tutankhamun)
100
Legend has it that this god of the underworld is buried at Abydos
Who is Osiris
100
The name for the process by which ancient Egyptians preserved bodies of pharaohs for the afterlife?
What is mummification?
200
This area is located on the Mediterranan at the delta of the Nile.
(Upper Egypt, Western Egypt, Lower Egypt, Eastern Egypt)
What is Lower Egypt?
200
The pyramids at Giza and the Great Sphinx were built during this period of Egyptian rule, lasting from 2700 – 2190 BCE.
What is the Old Kingdom?
200
The beautiful wife of Akhenaten, immortalized by a famous painted bust.
Who was Nefertiti?
200
Many Egyptian temples were built to honor this sun god.
Who is Ra?
200
The magnificent ruins of ancient Egypt were unearthed after the centuries by teams working for this French Emperor.
Who is Napoleon?
300
Choose the correct length of the Nile a) 675 miles b) 900 miles c) 1250 miles d) 1500 miles
What is 1250 miles?
300
Pyramids were originally made of a stack of these other burial structures laid one on top of the other.
What are mastabas?
300
He ruled longer than any other pharaoh and lived more than twice the average lifespan of his day causing many Egyptians to believe the he in fact was a god.
Who was Ramesses the Great (or Ramesses II)?
300
Egyptians considered him the king of all the gods.
Who is Amun?
300
The Egyptian system of writing which consisted of elaborate symbols and pictures.
What is Hieroglyphics?
400
The rich soil deposited by the Nile in the river valley resulted from this yearly occurrence.
What is flooding?
400
The ancient pyramids are located at this site near the modern day city of Cairo
What is Giza or Gizeh?
400
She reigned longer as pharaoh than any other female ruler of Egypt.
Who was Hatsheput?
400
Osiris's faithful wife who went looking for the pieces of his body in hopes of resurrecting him.
Who is Isis?
400
The most vital and wealthy Kingdom in Egyptian history.
What is the New Kingdom?
500
The collapse of the Old Kingdom of Egypt was brought about when the Nile did not flood as predicted for several years in a row, which caused this kind of crisis throughout the region.
What is famine?
500
The bricks of the pyramids were originally covered with this rock giving them a shining white appearance.
What is limestone?
500
During his short reign as pharaoh in the New Kingdom, he established monotheism.
Who is Akhenaten?
500
Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti changed the religion of ancient Egypt replacing the polytheistic system with this type of religious model.
What is monotheistic.
500
The unification of upper and lower Egypt in ancient times was commemorated by this ceremonial object consisting of carved slate.