Egyptian History Review Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• twenty : first female pharaoh whose rule lasted over _ years.
• amenemhet : government worker who became pharaoh
• hyksos : war-like nomads settled in egypt and took over the kingdom
• new kingdom : this time began after a group of egyptian princes worked together to drive the hyksos out of egypt
• caves : these _ were carved into the cliffs to create hidden burial chambers
• howard carter : man who discovered king tut's tomb in 1922
• nubians : an african people under egyptian rule for 700 years
• old kingdom : time of pyramids and mummies
• polytheism : the worship of many gods
• thutmosei : general who became pharaoh and doubled the size of egypt
• dynasty : a family that rules a country for many years
• hatshepsut : first woman pharaoh
• seven : the age king tut became pharaoh
• weapons : one of the reasons the hyksos were able to defeat the egyptians
• middle kingdom : the nubians were conquered during this time
• queentiye : a nubian woman who became queen of egypt
• golden age : this time of egyptian history is often referred to this way
• kingtut : pharaoh during the new kingdom; lived to be 18; not buried in a pyramid
• monotheism : the worship of only one god