Welcome To Jeopardy!! Ancient Egypt
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huge building with 4 sloping walls Pyramid
Preserving a person’s body allowed them to live again in the… Afterlife
Person who ruled for a child Regent
Family ruling for generations Dynasty
Rock-filled rapids Cataract
Triangular shaped end of a river Delta
Rich soil left behind when rivers flood Silt
Egyptian writing Hieroglyphics
People who studied the stars to predict floods Astronomers
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Skilled workers Artisans
Longest river in the world Nile River
Largest desert in the world Sahara Desert
Most people belonged to this social class Lower Class--Peasants
Egypt is located on what continent Africa
The gift of the Nile is… Egypt
Locate the Mediterranean Sea Click The Globe >>>>
Locate the Sahara Desert Click The Globe >>>>
Locate Giza and the Nile delta Click The Globe >>>>
Locate Upper and Lower Egypt Click The Globe >>>>
Locate the Red Sea Click The Globe >>>>
United Upper and Lower Egypt Menes
Conquered Egypt Alexander the Great
Destroyed stepmother’s temples Thutmose III
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Translated Egyptian hieroglyphics Jean Francois Champollion
Regent until she proclaimed herself pharaoh Hatshepsut
Important religious practice Preserving dead for the afterlife
Chief god of the Egyptians Amon-Re
Pharaohs were considered… God-kings
Goddess of mothers and children Isis
God of the sky Horus
FINAL JEOPARDY Name the three languages written on the Rosetta Stone
ANSWER Greek, Demotic and Hieroglyphics