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100
Its flooding enriched the soil along its bank
What is the Nile River?
100
To preserve a body after someone has passed away.
What is embalm?
100
A powerful Egyptian ruler was known as this
Who is a pharaoh?
100
it provided a means of translating hieroglyphics into a known language
What is the Rosetta Stone?
100
the name of the jars used to hold the internal organs during the mummification process?
What is Canopic jars?
200
The city in which the Sphinx and Great Pyramid are located
What is Giza?
200
For the ancient Egyptians the afterlife represented
What is perfect Egypt?
200
He united Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Pharaoh Menes?
200
This coffin-like funeral receptacle for a corpse, most commonly carved in stone, and displayed above ground, though it may also be buried
What is a scarcophagus?
200
Egyptians believed that the ka or spirit needed these essential items in the afterlife
What are weapons, furniture, clothing, jewelry, tools, food, and/or beverages?
300
Ancient Egypt was naturally protected from invasion by
What are cataracts and desert?
300
To learn how to obtain life after death, the Egyptians studied this
What is the Book of the Dead?
300
The combined white crown of Upper Egypt and the red crown of Lower Egypt represented___
What is a united Egypt? (the unification of Egypt)
300
a triangle-shaped area of land made from soil deposited by a river
What is a delta?
300
This profession did not have to pay taxes to the Pharaoh
What are scribes?
400
Which way did the Nile River flow?
What is South to North?
400
In the judgement scene from the Book of the Dead, this god performed the weighting of the heart against the feather
Who is Anubis?
400
The job that employed most of the people in Egypt
What is a farmer?
400
dangerous, rocky, fast-moving water
What is cataracts?
400
This tool gave historians the key they needed to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics?
What is Rosetta Stone?
500
The richest farmland in Egypt is found in this area
What is the Nile delta?
500
If the body decayed, its spirit would not recognize it
Why did Egyptians believe that a body had to be preserved for the afterlife?
500
A series of rulers from the same family is known as
What is a dynasty?
500
the distinctive clothing worn and ornaments carried at formal occasions as an indication of status.
What is regalia?
500
The people of Egypt would blame this person if crops did not grow or if disease struck
Who is the pharaoh ?