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Date__________________Period___________ Egyptian Bingo Questions
1. A form of writing developed by the ancient Egyptians.
2. The supreme ruler in ancient Egypt
3. A method of supplying water to dry land
4. One of the few members of Egyptian society who could write
5. A paper made from reeds that grew in the Nile Delta.
6. The use of workers and resources to produce goods
7. A triangular piece of land found at the mouth of rivers.
8. A large black object with carvings in three languages that provided the key to ancient
writings.
9. A group of lands and people ruled by one government
10. A huge structure used as a tomb for ancient Egyptian pharaohs.
11. What is the main economic activity of ancient Egypt?
12. In what region of Egypt does Upper Egypt lie?
13. In what region of Egypt does Lower Egypt lie?
14. What powerful group of nomads conquered Egypt around 1800?
15. What brought life to the desert?
16. The flooding of the Nile each year brought what to the land?
17. Most ancient Egyptian writing is about _____________?
18. The development that contributed greatly to the growth of
Egyptian civilization is ______________?
19. People who received training to write hieroglyphics were called?
20. The practice of one person owning another is called?
21. Which pharaoh ordered the construction of the Great Pyramid?
22. Where were many pharaohs and rulers buried?
23. Most of Egypt is made up of ________?
24. What was ancient Egypt’s main crop?
25. The need to irrigate farmland caused the ancient Egyptians to ______________?
26. Unlike women in most other ancient civilizations, Egyptian women could _____________?
27. Scholars learned the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics by studying the ______________?
28. Which ruler greatly increased Egypt’s wealth through trade?
29. Which people were just below the pharaohs on the social pyramid?
30. Who was on the top of the social pyramid?
31. Who was on the bottom of the Egyptian social pyramid?
32. He was the Egyptian god of the Nile.
33. She was the Egyptian goddess of the moon.
34. This was the process of preserving a pharaoh’s body in oil and cloth.
35. The Egyptians believed that after you died, you went to this place.
36. He was the man to finally discover the tomb of Tutankhamen.
37. He was the “boy king” who was 9 years old when he became a pharaoh.
38. This strange statue looks like a crouching lion with a human head.
39. This became the glorious capital of a great empire.
40. He united Upper and Lower Egypt.
41. After King Menes united Egypt, the kings wore what?
42. This is the capital city where King Menes built his great palace.
43. Ancient Egypt was divided into this number of regions.
44. Each of the forty regions of Egypt had a _________ in charge that reported directly to the
pharaoh.
45. The great pyramids were most likely built during what season, when the farming could not be
done.