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What is the second largest continent?

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Africa

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What connects Africa to Asia?

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Isthmus of Suez

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What is the world’s largest desert

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Sahara desert

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What is the world’s longest river

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Nile

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What is the most ancient name for Egypt

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Mizraim

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6
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What does the Bible call Egypt?

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The land of Ham

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Name for ancient Egyptians

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Copts

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Because of its cultural diffusion, what is Egypt called

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“The seabed of African cultures”

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Because of its rich and fertile soil, what did the ancient Egyptians call their land?

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Kemet meaning “black”

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What were the small states that Egypt consisted of?

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Nomes

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What were the strong rulers of Egypt called

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Pharaohs

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12
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How does the Nile River flow

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From south to north

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13
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What were he two nomes in Egypt

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Lower Egypt
Upper Egypt

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14
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Who United Lower and Upper Egypt?

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Menes

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15
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Who became the first pharaoh of all Egypt?

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Menes

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When was the Egypt the greatest and most magnificent power of of the ancient world?

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At the time of the Exodus of the Hebrews

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17
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Who called Egypt “the gift of the Nile”?

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Herodotus

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18
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Rich alluvial plain of fertile soil formed by the Nile

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Nile Delta

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19
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Language of ancient Egypt that has about 700 characters

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Hieroglyphics

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A book of prayers and incantations which was placed in tombs to protect the spirits of the dead in Egypt

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Book of the Dead

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21
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What was the most important Egyptian work

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Book of the Dead

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What were the two most important Egyptian capital cities

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Memphis and Thebes

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Word meaning “city of the dead”

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Necropolis

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Broken slab of black basalt fount by Napoleon and his men near the town or Rosetta

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Rosetta Stone

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Which languages was the Rosetta Stone written in

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Hieroglyphics, demotic, and Greek

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Frenchmen that was one of the people that deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone

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Champollion

27
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Structure that best symbolizes the Egyptian conception of state and society

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Pyramid

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Who was at the bottom of the pyramid?

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The masses

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Which class of people was at the sides of the pyramid?

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The priests and officials of pharaoh

30
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How were the Egyptians in their religious faith?

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Humanists
Naturalists
Polytheistic

31
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“Houses of eternity”

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Great Pyramid of Cheops

32
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A teenage Pharaoh who died at the age of 18

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Tutankhamen

33
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The preservation of the bodies of the dead

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Mummification

34
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What best symbolized the social order in Egypt

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The pyramid

35
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What was the most important thing for boys to study in Egypt

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Reading and writing

36
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Ancient Egyptian history is usually divided into how many dynasties?

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30 dynasties

37
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During what time did the Egyptians achieve their greatest accomplishments in art and architecture?

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The Old Kingdom

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Who were the three outstanding monarchs of the Old Kingdom?

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Khufu (Cheops)
Khafre
Menkaure

39
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What did Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure build?

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The three largest pyramids at Giza

40
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A sculpture with the head of a man and the body of a lion

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The Great Sphinx

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Which pharaoh does the Great Sphinx depict

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Khafre

42
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Who paved the way of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and the Twelfth Dynasty

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King Mentuhotep I

43
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What is the biblical theory about the Middle Kingdom of Egypt

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Some people think that it was during the Eleventh or early Twelfth Dynasty that Abram and his family entered Egypt in search of food

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Asiatic warriors that ravaged Egypt and brought the Middle Kingdom to an end

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Hyksos

45
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Word meaning ‘shepherd kings’ or ‘rulers of foreign countries’

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Hyksos

46
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Theban prince who founded the New Kingdom

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Ahmose I

47
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What did Ahmose I do to the Hebrews? Why?

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He oppressed and persecuted them because they were Semites like the Hyksos

48
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Who might have been Moses’s foster mother?

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Hatshepsut

49
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a female pharaoh that ruled jointly with her nephew Thutmose III for about 20 years

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Hatshepsut

50
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What is another name for the New Kingdom?

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Egyptian Empire

51
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Pharaoh that extended Egypt’s borders to their farthest extent and brought the Egyptian empire to its greatest height

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Thutmose III

52
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Son of Thutmose III who may behave been pharaoh during the Hebrew exodus

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Amenhotep II

53
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Who was the most outstanding monarch of the Last New Kingdom?

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Ramses II

54
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What became the most important city in Alexander’s empire

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Alexandria

55
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It was in what city the ……… Testament was translated into the …….. language

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Alexandria; Old Testament; Greek language

56
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Who gained control of Egypt after Alexander the Great’s death? What dynasty did he establish?

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Ptolemy; Hellenistic (Greek) dynasty

57
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Name for the Greek Old Testament

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Septuagint

58
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The Great Pyramid of Giza represents which three pharaohs

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Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure

59
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What are the four Kingdoms of Egypt

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The Old Kingdom
The Middle Kingdom
The New Kingdom
The Last New Kingdom

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