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RULES

Each team starts with 10 s

Answer your question right and remove 2 s from other teams

You can not remove your own s

Shoot a basket. 2 point line = 2 more s

3 point line = 3 more s

Last team with most s wins

Redemption = answer correct question and make the shot = 4 s

SOCIAL CLASS: FILL IN EACH CLASS BELOW

Pharoah

Vizier

High Priests and Nobles

ScholarsDoctors, priests,

architects engineers

Scribes

Skilled Craftsmen and Merchants

Farmers, tomb builders, soldiers

Slaves and captives

VOCABULARY

small particles of earth and sand that build up in rivers

a plant that grows in wet areas that is used to make paper

4 sided stone structure on a square base used to bury a

pharaoh

the name of an Egyptian king (like a god)

belief in many gods

a writing system made with pictures

the Egyptian sun god

preparing a body for afterlife and wrapping it in linen

Silt

Papyrus

Pyramid

Pharaoh

Polytheism

Hieroglyphics

Ra

Mummification

USES OF THE RIVER:

Trade and Transport

Human Needs

Irrigation

Fertile Soil

CONTRIBUTIONS: • Paper = papyrus

• Calendar

• Pyramids

• Mummies – embalming

• Geometry

• Canals – irrigation

• Rulers

• Surgery

• Make up, hair curlers, nail polish,

• Breath mints

• Funerals

• Medicine

• Locks

• Burials

COMPARE AND CONTRAST: WRITING

Cuneiform

Clay tablets

Mesopotamia

Hieroglyphics

Papyrus

Ancient Egypt

COMPARE AND CONTRAST: RULERS

Kings, Priests, Emperors

Mesopotamia

Pharaohs

Ancient Egypt

COMPARE AND CONTRAST: RELIGION

Ziggurats

Mesopotamia

Pyramids and Temples

Ancient Egypt

COMPARE AND CONTRAST: GEOGRAPHY

Tigris Euphrates

SW Asia

Iraq, Syria, Turkey

Mesopotamia

Nile

Africa

Egypt

Ancient Egypt

CONTRIBUTIONS

• Locks • Paper = papyrus• Calendar• Surgery• Mummification – embalming• Bowling• Writing system – heiroglyphics

•Geometry•Breath mints

COPY CATS

QUESTION:•The Mesopotamians may have used cuneiform as their form of written language, but Egyptians took their written language to a whole new level using this system of picture like symbols written on papyrus.

ANSWER:

•Hieroglyphics

COPY CATS

QUESTION:• Being that both are near deserts, Egypt and

Mesopotamia were both forced to depend on rivers as a source of fertile soil and water. While Mesopotamia had 2 rivers, Egypt only had this one river; the longest river in the world

ANSWER:• The Nile

COPY CATS

QUESTION:

•When is comes to gods and goddesses, one is never enough according to Mesopotamians and Egyptians. Both civilizations were this, “the practice of worshipping many gods”

ANSWER:

• Polythiestic

GEOGRAPHY

QUESTION:

• I am the body of water north of Egypt

ANSWER:

•Mediterranean Sea

GEOGRAPHY

QUESTION:

• II am the large desert west of the Nile

ANSWER:

• Sahara Desert

GEOGRAPHY

QUESTION:

• I am the body of water to the east of Egypt

ANSWER:

• The Red Sea

GEOGRAPHY

QUESTION:

• I am the capital city of Egypt (currently)

ANSWER:

• Cairo

GEOGRAPHY

QUESTION:

• I am home to Egypt’s largest pyramids

ANSWER:

•Giza

VOCABULARY

QUESTION:

• Paper-like material

ANSWER:

• Papyrus

VOCABULARY

QUESTION:

• The leader of ancient Egypt often considered half god and half human

ANSWER:

• Pharaoh

VOCABULARY

QUESTION:

• The process of preserving the body for the afterlife, often reserved for the upper classes

ANSWER:

•Mummification

VOCABULARY

QUESTION:

•A geometrical shaped tomb for pharaohs such as Khufu

ANSWER:

• pyramid

VOCABULARY

QUESTION:

• Material containing nutrients left in the soil after flooding has occurred

ANSWER:

• silt

KEEP IT CLASSY

QUESTION:

• The occupation at the top of the social class pyramid

ANSWER:

• pharaoh

KEEP IT CLASSY

QUESTION:•Usually captured in war, these forced

laborers were at the bottom of the social class pyramid

ANSWER:

• slaves

KEEP IT CLASSY

QUESTION:• Located in the middle of the social class pyramid,

these record keepers were usually the only members of society who knew how to write

ANSWER:• scribes

KEEP IT CLASSY

QUESTION:• This occupation was the pharaoh’s right

hand man, his adviser.

This person acted like a prime minister who supervised the running of the country. The word supervisor may have even came from this person’s job title

ANSWER:

•Vizier

KEEP IT CLASSY

QUESTION:•While they may be ranked lower on the

social class pyramid in ancient Egypt, this group would have been considered upper class in ancient Mesopotamia

ANSWER:•soldiers

CONTRIBUTION

QUESTION:

• Without dentist Egyptians suffered from dental hygiene related issues . To help, Egyptians invented these two dental related items that we still use today…hopefully.

ANSWER:•Toothpaste and breath mints

CONTRIBUTION

QUESTION:

• This contribution was necessary for the Egyptians to know when to plant their crops.

ANSWER:•Calendar

CONTRIBUTION

QUESTION:

• This contribution has been passed down to common funeral practices today where we still embalm a body to prepare it for burial.

ANSWER:•Mummification

CONTRIBUTION

QUESTION:

• This contribution was used to keep records and it was less bulky than the Sumerian’s clay tablets.

ANSWER:•Papyrus

RANDOM CHALLENGE

QUESTION: When the internal organs were removed during the mummification process, they were placed in these containers represented by the heads of different gods

ANSWER:•Canopic Jars

RANDOM CHALLENGE

QUESTION:Who was the youngest Pharaoh of Egypt?

ANSWER:•King Tutankahamon

RANDOM CHALLENGE

QUESTION:Where were the mummies of many Pharaohs moved for protection from robbers?

ANSWER: The Valley of the Kings

RANDOM CHALLENGE

QUESTION:Which Pharaoh was considered the most famous because there were temples built all along the Nile with his name?

ANSWER: Ramses

RANDOM CHALLENGE

QUESTION:Deserts offered great protection from invaders. Egypt benefits from this concept since the Eastern, the Western, the Sahara and this desert all surround Egypt.

ANSWER:•The Nubian Desert

RANDOM CHALLENGE

QUESTION:•Although Cleopatra may arguably be the

most famous female leader of Egypt, it was this woman who was the first female pharaoh.

ANSWER:•Hatshepsut

RANDOM CHALLENGE

QUESTION:•During mummification, Egyptians used this

material to act as glue between the layers of linen wrappings.

ANSWER:• Resin