River Run!
The longest river in the world
What is the Nile River?
These ancient buildings of Mesopotamia gave Egyptians, and many other ancient people, a blueprint for their own structures.
What is a ziggurat?
This is the world's second largest continent, despite what the maps show you.
What is Africa?
This pharaoh died young, and was discovered with his tomb full of treasures.
Who is King Tut?
This country's pyramids, tombs and other structures and treasures give it the best-recorded history of all African countries.
What is Egypt?
This carries the most volume of water of any river in the world.
What is the Amazon River?
This was the largest pyramid, and the largest and tallest building in the world for many centuries.
What is the Great Pyramid?
This is the world's largest desert.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This Jewish (Hebrew) man was sold into slavery by his brothers, and became the vizier (second-in-command) in Egypt. He saved Egypt from famine and bought the entire country, and its people, to be Pharaoh's.
Who is Joseph?
Egyptians used this plant to make a paper-like material for drawing.
What is papyrus?
This is the second-longest river in Africa
What is the Congo River?
This gravesite was almost totally undisturbed by grave robbers until Howard Carter discovered it in the 1920s (and Steve Martin made a sick song about it).
What is King Tut's tomb?
This large body of water sits directly above Africa, separating it from Europe.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This Scottish missionary became known as the "Queen of the Cannibals," although she obviously wasn't a cannibal herself!
Who is Mary Slessor?
These white people settled in South Africa in the 1600s, and later fought two wars with the British over control of their colonies.
Who are the Boers?
This river carries the second-largest volume of water in the world.
What is the Congo River?
This ancient structure looks like a lion or cat, with the head of a man.
What is the Great Sphinx?
This piece of land connects Africa to Asia.
What is the Sinai Peninsula?
The Bible tells us this African queen traveled to see King Solomon in Jerusalem, to see if he was as wise and magnificent as the stories said.
Who is the Queen of Sheba?
This famous missionary also served as a doctor and explorer in Africa, and famously fought off a lion attack.
Who is David Livingstone?
This fan-shaped piece of land is at the mouth of the Nile, and many other rivers have similar geography.
What is a delta?
This was the first Egyptian pyramid ever built, and it shared its outside shape with buildings from Mesopotamia.
What is Djoser's Pyramid?
This body of water allows ships to travel from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. The British, French and Israelis fought the Egyptians to control it in the 1950s.
What is the Suez Canal?
Who is Khama?
This hunk of broken rock was the key to decoding ancient Egypt's language.
What is the Rosetta Stone?