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100
What is a buildup of loose sand and soil at the mouth of the river?
delta
100
What is papyrus?
world's first paper like material made from a plant
100
What is the highest mountain in Africa?
Kilimanjaro
100
What Bible person became a vizier?
Joseph
100
What is a flat or level area of land? AND A landform that rises higher than a hill?
1. plain 2. mountain
200
A rock bed piled high in a river creating small waterfalls.
cataracts
200
What is a famine?
a time serious shortage of food
200
What is the world's second largest continent?
Africa
200
What pharaoh's tomb revealed much about ancient Egypt?
Tutankhamen
200
What is a highland plain?
plateau
300
An ancient Egyptian writing using pictures to represent objects is called what?
hieroplyphics
300
What is a title given to an Egyptian king?
Pharoah
300
What is the desert that covers most of Egypt?
Sahara Desert
300
What is the secretary to the ruler in a court called?
scribe
300
What is the "Gift of the Nile"? AND What is the large stone structure built as a tomb for King Khufu called?
1. Another name for Egypt. 2. The Great Pyramid.
400
The area near Thebes where the tombs of many pharaohs have been found.
Valley of the Kings
400
What is a buildup of loose sand and soil at the mouth of a river?
delta
400
Who is the king who united Upper and Lower Egypt?
Menes
400
Who was the only woman pharaoh in ancient Egypt?
Hatshepsut
400
What two landforms gave special protection to Egypt?
Desert and Cataracts- Because of its heat and lack of water, the desert discouraged invaders from coming over land. The cataracts made it nearly impossible for invaders to use the Nile River as a means of attack.
500
What is a tall, pointed pillar representing the sun god Ra? Spell it correctly.
Obelisk
500
What is one main reason that Egypt declined in power?
They had no iron to make strong weapons.
500
What is a mummy?
a body wrapped and preserved for eternal life.
500
Who is the first pharaoh
Akhenaton
500
Ok...this is a triple because it is 500! Describe each of the three Egyptian seasons. Tell me about them.
Flood season-the people of Eypt worked on their buildings while they waited for the water to go down.They trapped some water for irregation. Planting season-Planted in the fertile soil, left by the floods. Harvest season- gathered crops for another year.