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Egypt - Pharaohs
Pharaohs, Important People and more
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Famous Greek author and historian who traveled and wrote about the ancient world | Herodotus |
| An all-powerful king & religious ruler of Egypt. Considered a god-king | Pharaoh |
| A powerful adviser who helped a young pharaoh rule until he reached adult age. | Regent |
| Powerful female pharaoh who built Deir el-Bahri temple and expanded Egypt's trade with other parts of Africa. | Hatshepsut |
| Legendary first king of Egypt who is thought to have united Upper and Lower Egypt through conquest and founded both the First Dynasty and the great city of Memphis | Menes |
| One of the greatest New Kingdom pharaohs; a powerful military leader and stepson of Hatshepsut | Thutmose III |
| Considered the greatest pharaoh of the New Kingdom. Builder of temple of Abu Simbel. A great military leader who defeated the Hittites at the battle of Kadesh. | Ramses III (Ramesses) |
| One who studies the stars and planets | Astronomer |
| Boy pharaoh whose untouched tomb full of riches was discovered by archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings | Tutankhamun (Tut) |
| New Kingdom pharaoh whose name means "Servant of Aten". Very odd-looking and unpopular pharaoh for forcing the Egyptian people to abandon their traditional beliefs in many gods and worship only the sun god Aten. Originally named Amenhotep IV. | Akhenaten |
| Akhenaten's wife and mother of King Tut | Queen Nefertiti |
| Egyptian archaeologist often scene on the History Channel; Head of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. | Dr. Zawi Hawass |
| British archaeologist who discovered King Tut's tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922, the richest archaeologist in history. | Howard Carter |
| British aristocrat who financially sponsored Howard Carter's excavations in the Valley of the Kings | Lord Carnarvon |
| Pharaoh, son of Khufu, who built the second large (middle) pyramid at Giza | Khafre (Chephren) |
| Pharaoh, son of Khafre, who built the 3rd smaller | Menkaure |
| Pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid of Giza | Khufu (Cheops) |
| Pharaoh who was one of Alexander the Great's Greek generals who started the last Egyptian dynasty. | Ptolemy |
| Female pharaoh of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. The last pharaoh of Egypt; she committed suicide after her navy was defeated by the Romans. | Cleopatra |
| Old Kingdom pharaoh who built the step pyramid at Saqqara | Djoser |
| A chief adviser to the pharaoh | vizier |
| Hebrew prophet who led the Jews out of slavery from Egypt to the land of Canaan during the Exodus. | Moses |
| French scholar who deciphered the ancient hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone in 1822 | Jean-Francois Champollion |
| Roman dictator and general who conquered Egypt in 47 BC and had a child with Queen Cleopatra | Julius Caesar |
| Roman general who was allied with Cleopatra, but their naval fleet was defeated by the Emperor Octavius' Roman Navy at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. | Mark Antony |
| Greek king who conquered Egypt in 332 BC. The city he built and named after himself became a center of learning in the ancient world. | Alexander the Great |
| First king of the first dynasty in Egypt around 3070 BC. | Narmer |
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