Short Answer:
Who was the first pharaoh of a united Egypt?
Menes
What Frenchman was able to decipher the hieroglyphics of the Rosetta Stone?
Champollion
What is ancient Egyptian writing called?
hieroglyphics
What structure best symbolized the Egyptian concept of state and society?
pyramid
What teenage pharaoh's tomb was discovered in 1922?
Tutankhamen
Name the Greek "Father of History" who called Egypt the "gift of the Nile."
Herodotus
Name the Asiatic warriors who brought the Egyptian Middle Kingdom to an end:
Hyksos
What city became the center of Egyptian life?
Cairo
Hatshepsut
Who was the most outstanding monarch of the Later New Kingdom?
Ramses II