§upa - Jeopardy Terms - 3 - Egypt
A list of Jeopardy terms relating to Egyptian Civilization.
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- Amon
- God of Thebes
- Ramps and Levers
- Devices used to build the pyramids
- Life after Death
- Major preoccupation of Egyptian religion
- Africa
- Continent Egypt is part of
- Papyrus
- Paperlike Egyptian writing material
- God
- Religious status of the Egyptian ruler
- 365-Day Calendar
- Type of calendar developed by Egyptians; An improvement over the lunar calendar
- Priests and Nobles
- Hereditary groups who took some power away from Egyptian rulers
- Trade
- Source of wealth for Egypt in addition to agriculture
- Nubia
- Land to the south that became part of Egypt during the empire
- Akhenaton (Ikhnaton)
- New name of the ruler who established belief in a single god
- Book of the Dead
- Collection of magic spells to help achieve life after death
- Mediterranean Sea
- Body of water into which Egypt's major river empties
- Assyrians
- People who conquered Egypt in c. 670 B.C.E.
- Hatshepsut
- Female ruler who expanded trade and public building
- Kush
- Southern kingdom that ruled Egypt from c. 750 to 670 B.C.E.
- Pharaoh
- Original owner of all Egyptian land
- Mud-Brick (Reeds and Mud)
- Building material of Egyptian villagers
- Scribe
- Hereditary writing and record-keeping professional
- Nile
- Egypt's major river
- Amon-Re
- Chief Egyptian god
- Hyksos
- Asian people who ruled Egypt from c. 1700 B.C.E. to 1600 B.C.E.
- Alexander the Great
- Leader who conquered Egypt in 332 B.C.E.
- Ramses II
- Last strong ruler of ancient Egypt
- Heliopolis
- Great center for advanced study (especially astronomy and religion)
- Mummification
- This process preserved bodies for the afterlife
- Minerals
- Type of resource scarce in Egypt, usually traded for
- Sphinx
- Colossal statue of a crouching lion with a human head
- Upper Egypt
- Ancient kingdom of southern Egypt
- Rosetta Stone
- Artifact that showed how to decipher Egyptian writing
- Horus
- Son of Re, also of Osiris and Isis
- Middle Kingdom
- Second era of ancient Egyptian history
- Cataracts
- Series of great waterfalls in Egypt's major river
- Red Sea
- Body of water on Egypt's eastern boundary
- Menes
- Ruler who united northern and southern Egypt (c. 3000 B.C.E.)
- Dynasty
- A series of rulers from a single family; ancient Egypt had 31 of these over 2600 years
- Eater of the Dead
- Monster that devoured sinful souls
- Tut (Tutankhamen)
- Boy-king whose unopened tomb was discovered C.E. 1922
- Hieroglyphic System
- Ancient Egyptian system of writing
- Brother-Sister Marriage
- Type of marriage practiced by Egyptian rulers
- Hapi (Apis)
- A sacred bull worshipped by the ancient Egyptians
- Desert
- Type of land that bordered Egypt's river valley
- Syria and Palestine
- Two Middle Eastern areas that became part of Egypt's empire during the New Kingdom
- Memphis
- Capital city of the Old Kingdom
- Ahmose
- Prince who drove out the Hyksos and began the New Kingdom
- Re
- God of the Sun
- Dry Climate
- This kept many Egyptian manuscripts and artifacts preserved for centuries
- Geometry
- Mathematical skill developed by Egyptians to measure land
- Tell el Amarna (Tall al Mamarinah)
- New capital city established by Ikhnaton (Akhenaton or Amenhotep IV)
- Granite and Limestone
- The two building materials for the pyramids
- Cities
- Centers of government and religion
- Lower Egypt
- Ancient kingdom of northern Egypt
- Sacred Animal
- Each god's symbol, revered and mummified
- Scarab
- Sacred insect
- New Kingdom
- Third era of ancient Egyptian history; a period of conquest
- Aten (Aton)
- New single god decree by Ikhnaton
- Cotton
- Important crop in both ancient and modern Egypt
- Medicine
- Healing science in which Egyptians became proficient
- Agriculture
- Economic basis of Egyptian power and wealth
- Pharaoh
- Egyptian ruler
- Thutmose III
- Ruler who expanded Egyptian rule into Syria and Palestine
- Temples
- Buildings constructed to honor gods, especially Amon-Re
- Ink
- Material Egyptians used to write with
- Polytheism
- Belief in a number of gods
- Scale
- Device used by god Osiris to judge a soul
- 80
- Approximate number of pyramids built
- Osiris
- God of the Underworld; personification of the Nile
- Horse
- Animal introduced to Egypt by the invading Hyksos
- 4000 Miles
- Total length of Egypt's major river
- Granaries
- Storage buildings for grain from good harvests
- Monotheism
- Belief in a single god
- Thebes
- Capital city of the New Kingdom in central Egypt
- June
- Time of year when the river flood began
- Isis
- Fertility goddess; wife of Osiris
- Nile Delta
- Region formed by the mouth of Egypt's major river
- Giza
- Site of the Great Pyramid, plus other pyramids
- Great Pyramid
- Largest of the Egyptian kings' tombs
- Nefertiti
- Wife and sister of Ikhnaton (Akhenaton)
- Howard Carter
- Man who discovered King Tut's tomb
- Estates
- Homes of wealthy Egyptians outside the city
- West Bank of Nile
- Where all the pyramids were built
- Old Kingdom
- First era of ancient Egyptian history; the Pyramid Age
- Isthmus of Suez
- Land that joined Egypt with western Asia
- Khufu (Cheops)
- King entombed in the Great Pyramid
- Tombs(cut into cliffs)
- Pharaohs' burial places during the Middle Kingdom
- Pyramids
- Tombs built to house the deathless rulers