Ancient Egypt Jeopardy

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Ancient Egypt Jeopardy
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Powerpoint Jeopardy
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The term for the wrapped remains of a dead
Egyptian.
What is a mummy?
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Where the pharaohs body is placed for burial.
What is a tomb?
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The term for the containers where body organs
were placed.
What are canopic jars?
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The term to explain why a pharaohs mummified
body was placed in a tomb.
What is for the afterlife?
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Some of the pharaohs believed they were one of
these.
What is a god?
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Pyramids were made of millions of these.
What were large stone blocks?(Each about 2.5
tons!)
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The term for what was paintedin the tomb to show
apharaohs deeds.
What were murals or reliefs?
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The term used for decorations in a pharaohs
tomb.
What were paintings and hieroglyphics?
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The term for what mostEgyptian homes were made
of.
What were mud bricks?
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The term used to name groups of related pharaohs
What is a dynasty?
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The type of writing used by the Egyptians
What were hieroglyphics?
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The term used for a person who ruled for a
childking
What is a regent?
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The term used to name a skilled craftsman.
What is an artisan?
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The paper made by Egyptians
What is papyrus?
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The three jobs most people in Egypt did to make
a living
What are soldier, farmer,and tomb
builder/laborer?
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The God of mummification andprotector of tombs
represented ashaving the head of a jackal.
Who is Anubis?
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The two areas that divided Egyptgeographically
and politically.
What are Upper Egypt (southern upstream) and
Lower Egypt (northern downstream)?
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The most important factor in theprosperity of
Ancient Egypt.
What is the floodingof the Nile?
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Term for spirit or other self that could live
on after the death of the body, inhabiting the
corpse, or statue of the person.
What was ka?
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Egypt is on this continent.
What is Africa?
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The child king whose tomb was found with
treasure.
Who is King Tut?
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The woman who ruled as regent for her nephew and
then as a self-named pharaoh (often portrayed in
art as a man)?
Who is Hatshepsut?
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Has the head of the human Kafre and the body of a
lion.
What is the Great Sphinx?
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One of Egypts greatest pharaohs.
Who was Ramses?
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Written in three texts, Greek, demotic, and
formal hieroglyphic, it led to the deciphering
of hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?