Welcome To Jeopardy!! Ancient Egypt

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100 huge building with 4 sloping walls Pyramid

200 Preserving a person’s body allowed them to live again in the… Afterlife

300 Person who ruled for a child Regent

400 Family ruling for generations Dynasty

500 Rock-filled rapids Cataract

100 Triangular shaped end of a river Delta

200 Rich soil left behind when rivers flood Silt

300 Egyptian writing Hieroglyphics

400 People who studied the stars to predict floods Astronomers

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500 Skilled worker Artisan

100 Longest river in the world Nile

200 Largest desert in the world Sahara

300 Most people belonged to this Social Class Peasants and Farmers

400 Egypt is located on this continent Africa

500 The gift of the Nile is… Egypt

100 Locate the Mediterranean Sea

200 Locate the Sahara Desert

300 Locate Giza and the delta

400 Locate Upper and Lower Egypt

500 Locate the Red Sea

100 United Upper and Lower Egypt Menes

200 Conquered Egypt Alexander the Great

300 Destroyed stepmother’s temples Thutmose III

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400 Translated Egyptian hieroglyphics Jean Francois Champolion

500 Regent until she proclaimed herself Pharaoh Hatshepsut

100 Important religious practice Preserving dead for the afterlife (Mummification)

200 Chief god of the Egyptians Amon-re

300 Pharaohs were considered… God-kings

400 Goddess of mothers and children Isis

500 God of the sky Horus

FINAL JEOPARDY List all five of the Social classes in order

ANSWER Pharaoh Upper Class—(nobles, priests, & pharaoh’s court) Middle Class-- (merchants & artisans) Lower Class (peasants & farmers) Slaves