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What is the second largest continent?

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Africa

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What once connected Africa to Asia?

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the Isthmus of Suez

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What is the world’s largest desert?

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Sahara

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What lies in the northern corner of the African continent that was once the most magnificent empire in the ancient world?

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Egypt

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What was one of the most ancient name for Egypt?

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Mizraim

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What were the ancient Egyptians called?

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Copts

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Why has Egypt been called “the seedbed of African cultures”?

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because of the cultural diffusion that occurred there

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What did the ancient Egyptians once call their country because of its rich, fertile soil that stood out in dark contrast to the surrounding desert?

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Kemet

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What are the small states that Egypt consisted of called?

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nomes

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What were strong rulers of the nomes?

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pharaohs

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What was the region of the Nile Delta called?

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Lower Egypt

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What was the region from the Delta near Memphis to the First Cataract south of Thebes?

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Upper Egypt

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Who was the first pharaoh of all Egypt who united Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt?

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Menes

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What was Egypt known as after Upper and Lower Egypt were united?

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Kingdom of the Two Lands

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

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at the time of the Exodus of the Hebrews

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What is the longest river in the world and one of the few that flows from south to north?

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Nile River

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Who was the Greek “Father of History” who called Egypt the Gift of the Nile?

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Herodotus

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What is a rich alluvial plain of fertile soil at the mouth of the Nile river?

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Nile Delta

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What is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet?

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delta

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What is a highly elaborate system of some 700 characters that is the Egyptian form of picture writing?

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hieroglyphics

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What is the most important Egyptian work that is a book of prayers and incantations that was places in tombs to protect the spirits of the dead?

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Book of the Dead

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What were the two most important capital cities in ancient Egypt?

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Memphis and Thebes

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What means “city of the dead”?

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necropolis

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What is a greatly simplified form of hieroglyphics for everyday use by the scribes?

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What is a shorthand form of hieroglyphics also used by the scribes?
demotic
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What is a broken slab of black basalt that contained a message carved in three languages and allowed for the translating of hieroglyphics?
Rosetta Stone
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Whose men found the Rosetta Stone in Egypt?
Napolean's
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What were the three languages that were carved into the Rosetta Stone?
Greek, hieroglyphics, and demotic
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Who was the Frenchman who was able to decipher hieroglyphics?
Champollion
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Who was at the top of the divine pyramid in Egypt?
the pharaoh
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Who were located at the sides of the divine pyramid in Egypt?
the priests and the officials of the pharaoh
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Who were located at the base of the divine pyramid in Egpyt?
the other members of the Egytpian society
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What were the three religious groups that the Egyptians fall under?
humanists (because they worshipped pharaoh), naturalists (because they deified nature), and polytheists (because they had thousands of gods and goddesses)
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What remains one of the wonders of this world that was constructed by an Egyptian pharaoh to "ensure" that he would have confortable afterlife?
Great Pyramid of Cheops
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Who was a teenage pharaoh who died at the age of eighteen and was a minor ruler at a time of great depression in Egypt?
Tutankhamen
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What is the elaborate process of preserving the bodies of the dead?
mummification
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How many dynasties in ancient Egyptian history usually divided into?
30
38
What were the three outstanding monarchs of the Old Kingdom?
Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure
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What were the great monuments that were constructed during the Old Kingdom?
the three great pyramids at Giza and the Great Sphinx
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During which kingdom did the Egyptian achieve their greatest accomplishments in art and architecture?
the Old Kingdom
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Who paved the way for the Middle Kingdom and the powerful Twelfth Dynasty who also reunited the two kingdoms?
Mentuhotep I
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What are some biblical events that may have taken place during the Middle Kingdom?
Abram and his family traveling through Egypt in search of food, Joseph becoming the prime minister of Egypt, and Jacob and his family moving to Goshen
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What was the capital of Egypt during the Middle Kingdom?
Thebes
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What was the richest part of the Nile Delta?
Goshen
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Who were "rulers of foreign countries" who ravaged Egypt?
Hyksos
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Who was a Theban prince who founded the New Kingdom and may have been the "new king who knew not Joseph"?
Ahmose I
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What notable accomplishment did Ahmose I achieve during his rule?
he drove out the Hyksos and attempted to erase all remembrance of them
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Who was a female pharaoh who ruled jointly with her nephew?
Hatshepsut
49
What was the New Kingdom also called because Egypt reestablished its empire in Asia during this period?
Egyptian Empire
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Who was the pharaoh who extended Egypt's borders to their farthest extent?
Thutmose III
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Who may have been the pharaoh during the Hebrew exodus who was the son and successor of Thutmose III?
Amenhotep II
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who was the most outstanding monarch who fought the Hitties in Asia and sponsored much building activity?
Ramses II
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What becae the most important city in Alexander the Great's empire?
Alexandria, Egypt
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What was the Old Testament called once translated in Greek?
Sepuagent
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Who was one of Alexander the Great's generals who gained control of Egypt?
Ptolemy
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What was the center of Egyptian life and one of the greatest cities of the Arab world during the Middle Ages?
Cario
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What are two famous landmarks found in ancient Alexandria?
a great library and the Lighthouse of Alexandria

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