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100
The world's first paper-like material.
What is papyrus?
100
A buildup of loose sand and soil at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
100
The monument with the head of a man and the body, legs, and paws of a lion that stands near the pyramids.
What is the Sphinx?
100
A time of serious shortage of food.
What is a famine?
100
The secretary to the ruler in a court.
What is a scribe?
200
Ancient Egyptian writing using pictures to represent objects.
What is hieroglyphics?
200
The "Gift of the Nile."
What is Egypt?
200
A tall pointed pillar representing the sun god Ra.
What is an obelisk?
200
The title given to an Egyptian king.
What is pharaoh?
200
The king who united Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who was Menes?
300
The key to unlocking ancient Egyptian writing.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
300
The desert that covers most of Egypt.
What is the Sahara desert?
300
The large stone structure built as a tomb for King Khufu.
What is the Great Pyramid?
300
A body wrapped an preserved for eternal life.
What is a mummy?
300
The first pharaoh.
Who was Akhenaton?
400
The irrigation device used by the Egyptians.
What is a shadoof?
400
The highest mountain in Africa.
What is Kilimanjaro?
400
The area near Thebes where the tombs of many Pharaohs have been found.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
400
Second in command to the Egyptian king.
What is a vizier?
400
The only woman pharaoh in ancient Egypt.
Who was Hatshepsut?
500
The Bible character who became a vizier.
Who was Joseph?
500
The world's second largest continent.
What is Africa?
500
Two reasons Egypt declined in power.
What is the lack of superior weapons and the rulers fought amoung themselves for power.
500
A rock bed piled high in a river creating small waterfalls.
What are cataracts?
500
The pharaoh whose tomb revealed much about ancient Egypt.
Who was Tutankhamen?