1. Name the 1st major time period in Egyptian history.

The Old Kingdom

2. What is another name for the time period in Egyptian history

called the Old Kingdom?

The Pyramid Age

3. Name the Pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Khufu

4. During which period in Egyptian history would pharaohs

be buried in stone cut tombs

5. What do we call the form of writing that the Ancient Egyptians

used?

6. Lower Egypt is comprised mainly of what geographical feature?

7. What two parts of a persons’ being were reunited after death

to form the Akh?

8. What was the Pharaoh Menes most known for?

9. Akhenaten and Nefertiti tried to drastically change what during their

reign?

10. What major discovery enabled us to understand

ancient Egyptian text?

11. What two brothers were involved in the creation story

Ancient Egyptians believed in?

12. As an outcome of what ceremony could you expect to cease

to exist if what was true?(2 part question)

13. Who is the Father of all the Gods

14. What is this?

15. Where are the organs placed after death

16. Where are Upper and Lower Egypt and why are they called that?

Upper Egpyt is in the South and it is called that because it is at a

higher elevation then Lower Egypt which is in the North

17. What was your key to surviving the obstacles in the

afterlife?