JEOPARDY

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JEOPARDY

• Chapter 2- Egypt

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Old/Middle Kingdom
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New/Late Period
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People Places
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Geography
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EgyptianCulture
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Vocabulary
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This is a name sometimes used to describe the Old
Kingdom.
What was the Pyramid Age?
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These are the two classes of society during the
Old Kingdom.
What was the the Upper class ( pharaoh, royal
family, and priests and government officials),
and lower class, (everyone else).?
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This is what ended the Old Kingdom, ( around 2181
B.C. )
What were weak rulers and 125 years of Civil
wars?
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These are two pharaohs of the Old Kingdom.
Who were Khufu and Djoser ( Djoser had the first
step pyramid built by Imhotep, his architect)
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They were the Asiatic people who conquered the
Egyptians and ended the Middle Kingdom in 1730
B.C.
Who were the Hyksos, who used chariots, as
opposed to Egyptian donkey carts?
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This became the capital city of the New Kingdom
for several pharaohs beginning in 1550 B.C.
What was Thebes?
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This was the kingdom that the Egyptians conquered
in central eastern Africa to establish their
empire.
What was Nubia?
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She was the first female ruler that we have on
record and an able ruler during the New Kingdom.
Who was Hatshepsut?
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This was the new religion established by
Amenhotep ( Akhenaton)
What was monotheism, the worship of Aton, the
Sun God?
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Dont Choke!
Daily Double
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He was the boy king that took the throne after
Akenhoten, and moved the capital back to Thebes.
Who was Tutankhamen ( King Tut) Dancing by the
Nile?
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He was the last great ruler of the New Kingdom,
who held the empire together, and built many
monuments to himself.
Who was Ramses II?
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These were some of the invaders who ravaged the
Late Period until 300 B.C. and the end of
Egyptian greatness.
Who were the Persians, the Nubians, the
Assyrians?
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This was the capital city established by
Akhenaton.
What Tell el Amarna?
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He was the French linguist who deciphered the
secret of the Rosetta Stone.
Who was Jean Francois Champollion?
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He was the first Egyptian pharaoh to unite the
upper and lower kingdoms of Egypt.
Who was Menes?
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This is the direction that Nile River flows.
What is North?
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This would be the modern country where the
kingdom of Nubia was located.
What is Sudan?
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This is the huge Lake and Dam that limit the flow
of the Nile River today and provide electrical
power to Cairo.

What is Lake Nasser and the Aswan Dam, ( money
borrowed from the Soviet Union)?
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This is the land bridge that connects Africa with
Asia.
What is the Isthmus of Suez?
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This city was the ancient capital of Early
Egyptian pharaohs, and located near the Pyramids
of Giza, ( There is no Beale Street).
What is or was Memphis?
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Dont Choke!
Daily Double
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This is what ancient Egyptians used to calculate
their nearly accurate calendar.
What was Sirius, the Dog Star?
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This ancient book of the Old Kingdom describes
many diseases, their symptoms and treatments.
What was the Ancient Book of Healing?
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This is the Egyptian art of preserving the body
for the journey to the after life.
What was mummification?
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This was the book placed in the tombs of the
deceased in order to guide them through the
perils of the afterlife.
What was the Book of the Dead?
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These were three gods of the ancient Egyptian
religion.
Who were Amon( Ra), ( the Sun God) Osiris ( Nile
River God),and Isis ( Moon Goddess)?
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This was a way of protecting a group of people
traveling together for trade or religious
purposes.
What was a caravan?
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This was the type of religion practiced by the
Egyptians.
What was polytheism?
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This was one of the most important crops of
ancient Egypt and continues even into modern
times.
What was and is cotton?
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This is the type of government where a king or
queen rules with total or shared power.
What is a monarchy, (sometimes power is shared
with nobles) ?
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This was the ancient writing of the Egyptians
What was hieroglyphics?