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Egypt
Geography
Question: Continent of Egypt is part of
Answer: What is Africa?
Question: Egypt's major river
Answer: What is the Nile?
Question: Body of water into which Egypt's major river empties
Answer: What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Question: Type of land that bordered Egypt's river valley
Answer: What is a desert?
Question: Colossal statue of a crouching lion with a human head
Answer: What was the Sphinx?
Religion
Question: Tombs built to house the rulers
Answer: What werepyramids?
Question: This process preserved bodies for the afterlife
Answer: What was mummification?
Question: Buildings constructed to honor gods
Answer: What were temples?
Question: God of the sun
Answer: Who was Re (Ra)?
Question: Collection of magic spells to help achieve life after death
Answer: What was the Book of the Dead?
Government/Rules
Question: Boy-king whose unopened tomb was discovered in 1922
Answer: Who was Tutankhamen? King Tut
Question: Egyptian ruler
Answer: What was a pharaoh?
Question: A series of rulers from a single family
Answer: What was a dynasty?
Question: Ruler who united northern and southern Egypt
Answer: Who was Menes?
Question: Groups that took power away from Egyptian rulers
Answer: Who were priests and nobles?
Culture
Question: Ancient Egyptian system of writing
Answer: What was the hieroglyphic system?
Question: Paper-like Egyptian writing material
Answer: What was papyrus?
Question: Artifact that showed how to decipher Egyptian writing
Answer: What was the Rosetta Stone?
Question: Source of wealth for Egypt in addition to agriculture
Answer: What was trade?
Question: Math skill developed by the Egyptians to measure land
Answer: What was geometry?
Vocabulary
Question: Important crop in both ancient and modern Egypt
Answer: What was cotton?
Question: Writing and recordkeeping professional
Answer: What was a scribe?
Question: Homes of wealthy Egyptians outside of the city
Answer: What were estates?
Question: Approximate number of pyramids built
Answer: What was 80?
Question: Female ruler who expanded trade and public building
Answer: Who was Hatshepsut?