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JEOPARDY
Chapter 2- Egypt
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Vocabulary
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Old/Middle Kingdom
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What was the Pyramid Age?
This is a name sometimes used to describe the
Old Kingdom.
What was the the Upper class ( pharaoh, royal
family, and priests and government officials),
and lower class, (everyone else).?
These are the two classes of society during the
Old Kingdom.
What were weak rulers and 125 years of Civil
wars?
This is what ended the Old Kingdom, ( around
2181 B.C. )
Who were Khufu and Djoser ( Djoser had the
first step pyramid built by Imhotep, his
architect)
These are two pharaohs of the Old
Kingdom.
Who were the Hyksos, who used chariots, as
opposed to Egyptian donkey carts?
They were the Asiatic people who conquered
the Egyptians and ended the Middle Kingdom
in 1730 B.C.
What was Thebes?
This became the capital city of the New
Kingdom for several pharaohs beginning in
1550 B.C.
What was Nubia?
This was the kingdom that the Egyptians conquered
in central eastern Africa to establish their empire.
Who was Hatshepsut?
She was the first female ruler that we have on
record and an able ruler during the New
Kingdom.
What was monotheism, the worship of
Aton, the Sun God?
This was the new religion established by
Amenhotep ( Akhenaton)
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Who was Tutankhamen ( King Tut) Dancing
by the Nile?
He was the boy king that took the throne after
Akenhoten, and moved the capital back to
Thebes.
Who was Ramses II?
He was the last great ruler of the New Kingdom,
who held the empire together, and built many
monuments to himself.
Who were the Persians, the Nubians, the
Assyrians?
These were some of the invaders who ravaged
the Late Period until 300 B.C. and the end of
Egyptian greatness.
What Tell el Amarna?
This was the capital city established by
Akhenaton.
Who was Jean Francois Champollion?
He was the French linguist who
deciphered the secret of the Rosetta
Stone.
Who was Menes?
He was the first Egyptian pharaoh to unite the
upper and lower kingdoms of Egypt.
What is North?
This is the direction that Nile River flows.
What is Sudan?
This would be the modern country where the
kingdom of Nubia was located.
What is Lake Nasser and the Aswan Dam, (
money borrowed from the Soviet Union)?
This is the huge Lake and Dam that limit the
flow of the Nile River today and provide
electrical power to Cairo.
What is the Isthmus of Suez?
This is the land bridge that connects Africa
with Asia.
What is or was Memphis?
This city was the ancient capital of Early
Egyptian pharaohs, and located near the
Pyramids of Giza, ( There is no Beale Street).
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What was Sirius, the Dog Star?
This is what ancient Egyptians used to calculate
their nearly accurate calendar.
What was the Ancient Book of Healing?
This ancient book of the Old Kingdom describes
many diseases, their symptoms and treatments.
What was mummification?
This is the Egyptian art of preserving the body
for the journey to the after life.
What was the Book of the Dead?
This was the book placed in the tombs of the
deceased in order to guide them through the
perils of the afterlife.
Who were Amon( Ra), ( the Sun God) Osiris (
Nile River God),and Isis ( Moon Goddess)?
These were three gods of the ancient Egyptian
religion.
What was a caravan?
This was a way of protecting a group of
people traveling together for trade or
religious purposes.
What was polytheism?
This was the type of religion practiced by the
Egyptians.
What was and is cotton?
This was one of the most important crops of
ancient Egypt and continues even into
modern times.
What is a monarchy, (sometimes power is
shared with nobles) ?
This is the type of government where a king
or queen rules with total or shared power.
What was hieroglyphics?
This was the ancient writing of the Egyptians