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GeographyKings and Queens ReligionPeople Achievements Nubia & Misc.

Where is the Mediterranean Sea located? A 100

A

Where is the Red Sea located? A 200

H

Where is the Nile River located? A 300

F

Where is the Sahara Desert located? A 400

D

Where is the Nile Delta located? A 500

B

How do Egyptian rulers run their empire? B 100

By maintaining absolute power over the people. B 100

What was the respected title of an Egyptian king? B 200

Pharaoh B 200

A series of rulers from the same family is called a _____? B 300 HINT: Egypt had 31 of them.

Dynasty B 300

Why did Pharaoh Menes wear two crowns? B 400

To show he ruled over two lands: Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt B 400

The pharaoh was not just a political (governmental) ruler but also a _______ leader. B 500

religious B 500

Religion played and important part in Egyptian life by ___________. C 100

Explaining natural events to the people. C 100

How did the ancient Egyptians demonstrate their belief in life after death? C 200

They preserved the bodies of their dead. C 200

Identify one purpose of the pyramids. C 300

Tombs for the pharaoh C 300

DAILY DOUBLE C 400 DAILY DOUBLE Place A Wager

Egyptians preferred not to be on which side of the Nile after nightfall? C 400

West C 400

Egyptian gods and goddesses were often shown as humans with what kind of heads? C 500

Animal C 500

In ancient Egypt, most of the people belonged to the social class of _________. D 100

Workers and farmers D 100

Which class of people is missing from this diagram? D 200 pharaoh Priests and Nobles ______ and skilled workers peasants

merchants D 200

What famous Egyptian woman served as Thutmose’s regent until he was old enough to rule? D 300

Hatshepsut D 300

Most of what we know about the everyday life of Egyptians can be found on __________. D 400

paintings that cover the walls of tombs and temples. D 400

What happened to prisoners that Egyptians captured in war? D 500

They were made slaves. D 500

Ancient Egyptian astronomers studied the stars to _______________. E 100

Predict the flooding of the Nile River E 100

To keep track of the kingdom’s growing wealth, ancient Egyptians began to use _______________. E 200

hieroglyphics E 200

What was the Egyptians type of paper called? E 300

papyrus E 300

E 400 How did Egyptians come to have a knowledge of human anatomy?

From the process of mummification. E 400

What is “herbalism?” E 500

Creating medicines from plants E 500

In about 4000 B.C., the earliest communities in the Nile River Valley first developed in ___________ F 100

The delta of Upper Egypt. F 100

Because of Nubia’s location between Egypt and Central Africa, it was ________. F 200

A center for trade. F 200

What are the two main sources of the Nile River? F 300

The Blue Nile and the White Nile. F 300

Nubia’s three powerful kingdoms were in Napata, Meroe, and _________. F 400

Kerma F 400

What happens at coronation? F 500

It is a ceremony where a royal person is crowned. F 500

The Final Jeopardy Category is: Vocabulary Please record your wager. Click on screen to begin

What is delta? Click on screen to continue

A place at the mouth of a river where it splits into several streams to form an area shaped like a triangle. Click on screen to continue

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