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1
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When was King Menes Ruling over Egypt?

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3100 BC or 5100 Years ago

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2
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When do the swallows fly?

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Every Autumn when it gets cold

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3
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What direction do the swallows fly?

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South

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4
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How long does it not rain?

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Months on end

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5
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How much does it rain in Egypt?

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Very little

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6
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What flows through the country?

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The Nile River

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7
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Twice a year it rains and the Nile River will do what?

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The river would swell and burst its banks, flooding the whole land

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What was the earth drenched with after the flood?

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Rich with oozing Mud

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9
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What did the Egyptians worship as it was God himself

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The Nile River

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10
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Why was their land so rich and powerful?

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The Nile River

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11
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How many kings ruled over Egypt?

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1 King

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12
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What was the 1 King name?

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King Menes

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13
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When was King Menes ruling?

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In 3100 BC

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What were the Kings of Egypt called?

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Pharaohs

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15
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Where did the Pharaohs live?

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In a great stone palace with massive pillars and many courtyards, and his word was law

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16
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Which King summoned all his subjects to build his tomb?

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King Cheops

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17
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When did King Cheops live?

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2500 BC

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18
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What did King Cheops Want as his Tomb

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A mountain

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19
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What is King Cheops Tomb called?

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Great Pyramid of Cheops

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20
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What can fit in King Cheops tomb?

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A cathedral

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21
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Who put the gigantic stones on top of each other

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Humans

22
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How many years did the people toil for the pharaoh when they weren’t working on the fields

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30 years

23
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What will happen if the people grew tired

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The kings overseer would hit them with a wip

24
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What was the Whip called?

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hippopotamus-skin whip

25
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What did the Egyptians believe

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They believed in many gods

26
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Who was the sun God?

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Amon

27
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Who was the Kingdom of Dead God?

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Anubis

28
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What did each Pharaoh Believe

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They were the son of the Sun God

29
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What did they build in honor of their Gods?

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chiseled majestic stone statues, as tall as a five-storey house, and built temples as big as towns

30
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What was in in front of the temples?

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set tall pointed stones

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What were the stones made out of?

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single block of granite

32
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What was the single block of granite called?

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obelisks

33
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What were the Gods represented as?

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animal form

34
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What was the lions body with a human face called?

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Sphinx

35
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How long was the Sphinx guarding the Tombs of the pharaohs?

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more than 5k years

36
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What was the most important Egyptians’ strange religion

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Belief

37
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Why did the Egyptians preserve body’s?

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a man’s soul left his body when he died, for some reason the soul went on needing that body, and would suffer if it crumbled into dust.

38
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How did the Egyptians preserve body’s

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Rubbed them with ointments and the juices of certain plants, and bandaged them with long strips of cloth so that they wouldn’t decay

39
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What was the Body preserved called?

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A mummy

40
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What were the mummy’s put inside

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Wooden Coffin in one of stone

41
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What were the stone coffins put in?

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A temple

42
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Which king’s pyramid was empty?

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King Cheops

43
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What was the purpose of a tomb?

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for the soul when it returned to visit its body

44
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What did the Egyptians do for the soul of the tomb

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put in food and furniture and clothes and a lot of paintings

45
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Why did the Egyptians put food and clothes etc?

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So the soul doesn’t go to the wrong tomb

46
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What did the paintings look like?

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Ironed Flat

47
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How did they irrigate the fields

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pumped water into ditches

48
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What were the “sacred signs” called?

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hieroglyphs

49
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what was the form of hieroglyphs

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the Egyptians form of writing

50
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What type of animal did the Egyptians worship

A

cats

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