Jeopardy VocabularyGeography RulersReligion Culture Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from H1 This was an ancient region in the Nile River Valley, on the site of present-day southern Egypt and northern Sudan

$100 Answer from H1 What was Nubia?

$200 Question from H1 This was a large waterfall; any strong flood or rush of water.

$200 Answer from H1 What is a cataract?

$300 Question from H1 This is a plain at the mouth of a river formed when sediment is deposited by flowing water.

$300 Answer from H1 What is a delta?

$400 Question from H1 This was the title of ancient Egyptian kings.

$400 Answer from H1 What is pharaoh?

$500 Question from H1 This is a series of rulers from the same family or ethnic group.

$500 Answer from H1 What is dynasty?

$100 Question from H2 This is the river that flows through Egypt.

$100 Answer from H2 What is the Nile River?

$200 Question from H2 The sources of the Nile River are the Blue Nile and the White Nile while the mouth is in the sea.

$200 Answer from H2 What is the Mediterranean Sea?

$300 Question from H2 This type of landform surrounds Egypt.

$300 Answer from H2 What is a desert?

$400 Question from H2 This is a fine soil found on river bottoms that was brought to Egypt by the Nile River each spring.

$400 Answer from H2 What is silt?

$500 Question from H2 The Nile River flowed in this direction.

$500 Answer from H2 What is north?

$100 Question from H3 This was the title of the ruler of ancient Egypt.

$100 Answer from H3 What was pharaoh?

$200 Question from H3 According to legend, Egypt’s first dynasty began when this king unified upper and lower Egypt.

$200 Answer from H3 Who was Menes?

$300 Question from H3 Ancient Egyptians believed the pharaoh was the earthly form of this god who was the falcon god.

$300 Answer from H3 Who was Horus?

$400 Question from H3 The pharaoh had this kind of power over the Egyptian people.

$400 Answer from H3 What was absolute power?

$500 Question from H3 The rule of this female pharaoh, the stepmother of Thutmose III, was good for Egypt because she created peace and economic success in Egypt.

$500 Answer from H3 Who was Hatshepsut?

$100 Question from H4 This was the chief god of ancient Egypt.

$100 Answer from H4 Who was Amon-Re?

$200 Question from H4 This powerful god was the god of the living and the dead.

$200 Answer from H4 Who was Osiris?

$300 Question from H4 This goddess was worshipped as the great mother who protected her children.

$300 Answer from H4 Who was Isis?

$400 Question from H4 When pharaohs died, their bodies were prepared for burial in this way.

$400 Answer from H4 They were mummified

$500 Question from H4 The dead were buried with their possessions because the Egyptians believed the bodies needed them to survive here.

$500 Answer from H4 What was the afterlife?

$100 Question from H5 The largest social class in ancient Egypt was this group of people who performed all types of labor.

$100 Answer from H5 What were the peasants?

$200 Question from H5 This small class of people were prisoners captured in war.

$200 Answer from H5 Who were slaves?

$300 Question from H5 This group of people could own land, run businesses, and enter into legal contracts. They were considered models of Isis.

$300 Answer from H5 Who were women?

$400 Question from H5 These picturelike symbols began to be used because the Egyptians needed a way to keep track of the empire’s growing wealth.

$400 Answer from H5 What are hieorglyphs?

$500 Question from H5 Because they wanted to know when the waters of the Nile would flood, the Egyptians figured out the length of this.

$500 Answer from H5 What is a year?

Final Jeopardy Which three Nubian cultures were located south of Egypt?

Final Jeopardy Answer What were Kerma, Napata, and Mero ë ?