Life in Ancient Egypt Jeopardy Template Created by Lynne Crandall University of Michigan Revised by

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Life in Ancient EgyptJeopardy
TemplateCreated by Lynne CrandallUniversity of
MichiganRevised by Mark KondrakCLA Language
CenterUniversity of MinnesotaModifications by
P.Vork, Chetek Middle School
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Theme 1 Prompt 100 Points
What geographic feature was most important to
Ancient Egyptian culture?
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Theme 1 Response 100 Points
The Nile River.
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Theme 1 Prompt 200 Points
How did deserts to the east and west of the Nile
help Ancient Egypt?
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Theme 1 Response 200 Points
Deserts protected Egypt from invasion by foreign
armies.
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Theme 1 Prompt 300 Points
Which direction, North or South, is downstream on
the Nile?
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Theme 1 Response 300 Points
Downstream is North on the Nile.
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Theme 1 Prompt 400 Points
What landform associated with the river makes up
most of Lower Egypt?
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Theme 1 Response 400 Points
The Nile delta.
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Theme 1 Prompt 500 Points
Where was Nubia and what feature of the river
separated it from the rest of Egypt?
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Theme 1 Response 500 Points
Nubia was on the Upper Nile south of Egypt where
there are 6 cataracts on the river that prohibit
easy navigation.
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Theme 2 Prompt 100 Points
Egypt was ruled by many different dynasties. What
is a dynasty?
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Theme 2 Response 100 Points
A dynasty is a series of rulers from the same
family.
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Theme 2 Prompt 200 Points
What did the ancient Egyptians call their kings?
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Theme 2 Response 200 Points
Pharaoh
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Theme 2 Prompt 300 Points
Hatshepsut served as regent for Thutmose III.
What is a regent?
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Theme 2 Response 300 Points
A regent is a person who serves as the leader of
a country until the person who is supposed to be
the leader gets old enough for the job.
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Theme 2 Prompt 400 Points
According to legend, what did Menes do that made
him important in Egyptian history?
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Theme 2 Response 400 Points
Menes united Upper and Lower Egypt, built the
city of Memphis, and began the first dynasty.
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Theme 2 Prompt 500 Points
What names are given to the three major time
periods in Ancient Egyptian history?
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Theme 2 Response 500 Points
Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom.
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Theme 3 Prompt 100 Points
What was the name of the chief god of the Ancient
Egyptians?
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Theme 3 Response 100 Points
Amon-Re
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Theme 3 Prompt 200 Points
Among Egyptian gods, who was the god of the
afterlife, and who was his wife?
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Theme 3 Response 200 Points
The god of the afterlife was Osiris and his wife
was Isis.
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Theme 3 Prompt 300 Points
Why did the Egyptians bury so many things with
the dead?
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Theme 3 Response 300 Points
The Egyptians believed that the dead would need
his things in the afterlife where his life would
go on much as it had been while he lived.
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Theme 3 Prompt 400 Points
How was a mummy made?
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Theme 3 Response 400 Points
The organs were removed from the body it was
filled with salt and left for 42 days or more to
dry out finally, it was cleaned and wrapped in
linen.
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Theme 3 Prompt 500 Points
Why have the contents of so few pharaohs tombs
been found?
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Theme 3 Response 500 Points
Most of the pharaohs tombs were broken into and
looted by grave robbers shortly after the tombs
were sealed.
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Theme 4 Prompt 100 Points
What word means a kind of picture writing in
which some pictures stand for things and some
stand for sounds?
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Theme 4 Response 100 Points
Hieroglyphics.
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Theme 4 Prompt 200 Points
What plant did the Ancient Egyptians use to make
a kind of paper?
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Theme 4 Response 200 Points
Papyrus
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Theme 4 Prompt 300 Points
What is the Rosetta stone?
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Theme 4 Response 300 Points
The Rosetta stone is a rock slab with 3 different
languages carved into it that provided the clues
to translating Egyptian hieroglyphs .
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Theme 4 Prompt 400 Points
What are astronomers and why was their work in
Ancient Egypt important?
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Theme 4 Response 400 Points
Astronomers are scientists who study the movement
of the stars. In Ancient Egypt they predicted
when the Nile would flood.
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Theme 4 Prompt 500 Points
Herbalism was used by the Egyptians. What is
herbalism?
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Theme 4 Response 500 Points
Herbalism is the art of creating medicines from
plants.
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Theme 5 Prompt 100 Points
What was the name of the land that waslocated
upstream from Egypt?
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Theme 5 Response 100 Points
Nubia
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Theme 5 Prompt 200 Points
What feature of the Nile characterized the Nubian
lands?
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Theme 5 Response 200 Points
Cataracts
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Theme 5 Prompt 300 Points
What was the name of the Nubian kingdom that was
located near the third cataract and produced many
skilled artisans?
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Theme 5 Response 300 Points
Kerma
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Theme 5 Prompt 400 Points
What was the name of the Nubian kingdom that was
located near the fourth cataract and at one time
controlled all of Egypt?
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Theme 5 Response 400 Points
Napata
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Theme 5 Prompt 500 Points
What was the name of the Nubian kingdom that
developed iron work?
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Theme 5 Response 500 Points
Meroe
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