Here are the great questions from Ancient Egypt:

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  1.  What does the word Pharaoh mean?
  2.  How did the ancient Egyptians call Egypt? K________
  3.  Why did the ancient Egyptians refer to Egypt as the Black Land?
  4.  What was the name given to the ‘paper’ invented by the ancient Egyptians?
  1.  Why was Tutankhamen important for the ancient Egyptians?
  2.  What animals represented Upper and Lower Egypt?
  3.  In Egyptian art what was Frontalism?
  4.  What does Kemet mean?
  5.  What was the name of ancient Egyptian writing?
  6.  Were the ancient Egyptians Polytheistic or Monotheistic?
  7.  In Ancient Egyptian art people were: St_______, Id_________ in pr_________ and seen from the fr__________.
  1.  What is interesting about Abu Simbel?
  2.  Name the ancient Egyptian god of the sun
  3.  Name the three great Pyramids
  4.  Why did they build the pyramids in the shape of a pyramid?
  5.  Name the three ancient Egyptian kingdoms
  6.  In which kingdom did they build the pyramids?
  7.  Why did they build the pyramids and tombs on the western side

of the Nile?

  1.  Name one ancient Egyptian temple
  2.  Name one ancient Egyptian tomb that is not Abu Simbel
  3.  In Egypt was divided into two distinct areas, which were they?
  1.  What desert is south of ancient Egypt? N__________
  2.  Who was the first Pharaoh?
  3.  Who was the last Pharaoh?
  4.  Why did the ancient Egyptians call Egypt the Black Land?
  5.  Name one female Pharaoh other than Cleopatra
  6.  Give the dates for ancient Egypt 3________ to 3________ BC
  7.  Which was the first pyramid? D_____________ at Saqqara by Imhoptep
  1.  What Neolithic invention gave us organized religion in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia?
  1.  Why did the ancient Egyptians worship cats?
  2.  What does sarcophagus mean?
  3.  True or False: Slaves built the pyramids
  4.  In which kingdom did they build the pyramids?
  5.  How old are the pyramids?
  6.  What was the capital of Lower Egypt? M_____________
  7.  What was the capital of Upper Egypt? T__________
  8.  What did they use hieroglyphics for?

38.   What does Polytheistic mean?