1. 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt VocabularyGeographyLifeRulersPotpourri

2. Triangle shaped area at the mouth of a river

3. What is a delta?

4. A rock filled rapid in a river

5. What is a cataract?

6. Someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule

7. What is a regent?

8. Reedlike plants used as a type of paper

9. What is papyrus?

10. Skilled worker

11. What is an artisan?

12. The location of the earliest communities in the Nile River Valley

13. What is the delta of Lower Egypt?

14. What created rich farmland in the river valley?

15. What is the Nile River?

16. Nubia’s location allowed for this to occur

17. What is to become a center of trade?

18. The reason astronomers studied the stars

19. What is to predict the flooding of the Nile?

20. The direction the Nile River flows

21. What is south to north?

22. This explained natural events to people

23. What is religion?

24. The largest social class

25. What is workers & farmers?

26. This was an important religious practice, from which we have remains to study today

27. What is to prepare the dead for the afterlife (mummification)?

28. This greatly influenced the lives of the peasants

29. What are the planting seasons?

30. Egyptians used this to track wealth

31. What are hieroglyphics?

32. These individuals had absolute power over all Egyptians

33. Who are the pharaohs?

34. The result of the first 6 dynasties

35. What is a bigger and more prosperous Egypt?

36. One of the greatest achievements of Pharaoh Menes

37. What is uniting Upper & Lower Egypt?

38. The way in which rulers controlled Egypt

39. What is through absolute power?

40. This was extended by the pharaohs of the New Dynasty

41. What is Egyptian power?

42. The way Meroe became rich

43. What is Nubians taking control of trade routes using iron weapons?

44. The way belief in the afterlife was shown

45. What is preserving the dead?

46. A triangular shaped building in which Egyptian rulers were often buried

47. What is a pyramid?

48. Rich, fertile soil deposited by the flooding of a river

49. What is silt?

50. A family of rulers

51. What is a dynasty?

52. Final Jeopardy: Essay Questions

53. You will choose 2 of the 4 essay questions on the test. You will also complete a society pyramid (not optional)