Transcript Egypt Jeopardy

Jeopardy
Vocabulary Geography
Rulers
Religion
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Culture
Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from H1
This was an ancient region
in the Nile River Valley,
on the site of present-day
southern Egypt and
northern Sudan
$100 Answer from H1
What was Nubia?
$200 Question from H1
This was a large
waterfall; any strong
flood or rush of
water.
$200 Answer from H1
What is a cataract?
$300 Question from H1
This is a plain at the
mouth of a river formed
when sediment is
deposited by flowing
water.
$300 Answer from H1
What is a delta?
$400 Question from H1
This was the title of
ancient Egyptian
kings.
$400 Answer from H1
What is pharaoh?
$500 Question from H1
This is a series of
rulers from the
same family or
ethnic group.
$500 Answer from H1
What is dynasty?
$100 Question from H2
This is the river
that flows through
Egypt.
$100 Answer from H2
What is the Nile
River?
$200 Question from H2
The sources of the Nile
River are the Blue Nile
and the White Nile
while the mouth is in
the sea.
$200 Answer from H2
What is the
Mediterranean Sea?
$300 Question from H2
This type of
landform surrounds
Egypt.
$300 Answer from H2
What is a desert?
$400 Question from H2
This is a fine soil found
on river bottoms that
was brought to Egypt by
the Nile River each
spring.
$400 Answer from H2
What is silt?
$500 Question from H2
The Nile River
flowed in this
direction.
$500 Answer from H2
What is north?
$100 Question from H3
This was the title
of the ruler of
ancient Egypt.
$100 Answer from H3
What was
pharaoh?
$200 Question from H3
According to legend,
Egypt’s first dynasty
began when this king
unified upper and lower
Egypt.
$200 Answer from H3
Who was Menes?
$300 Question from H3
Ancient Egyptians
believed the pharaoh
was the earthly form of
this god who was the
falcon god.
$300 Answer from H3
Who was Horus?
$400 Question from H3
The pharaoh had
this kind of
power over the
Egyptian people.
$400 Answer from H3
What was
absolute power?
$500 Question from H3
The rule of this female
pharaoh, the stepmother of
Thutmose III, was good for
Egypt because she created
peace and economic success
in Egypt.
$500 Answer from H3
Who was
Hatshepsut?
$100 Question from H4
This was the chief god
of ancient Egypt.
$100 Answer from H4
Who was
Amon-Re?
$200 Question from H4
This powerful god
was
the god of the
living and the dead.
$200 Answer from H4
Who was
Osiris?
$300 Question from H4
This goddess was
worshipped as the
great mother who
protected her children.
$300 Answer from H4
Who was Isis?
$400 Question from H4
When pharaohs died,
their bodies were
prepared
for burial in this way.
$400 Answer from H4
They were mummified
$500 Question from H4
The dead were buried with
their possessions because
the Egyptians believed the
bodies needed them to
survive here.
$500 Answer from H4
What was the
afterlife?
$100 Question from H5
The largest social class
in ancient Egypt was this
group of people who
performed all types of
labor.
$100 Answer from H5
What were the
peasants?
$200 Question from H5
This small class
of people were
prisoners
captured in war.
$200 Answer from H5
Who were slaves?
$300 Question from H5
This group of people could
own land, run businesses,
and enter into legal
contracts. They were
considered models of Isis.
$300 Answer from H5
Who were
women?
$400 Question from H5
These picturelike symbols
began to be used because
the Egyptians needed a
way to keep track of the
empire’s growing wealth.
$400 Answer from H5
What are
hieorglyphs?
$500 Question from H5
Because they wanted to
know when the waters of
the Nile would flood, the
Egyptians figured out
the length of this.
$500 Answer from H5
What is a year?
Final Jeopardy
Which three
Nubian cultures
were located south
of Egypt?
Final Jeopardy Answer
What were Kerma,
Napata, and
Meroë?