Geography | Culture | The Pyramids of Giza | The Nile River | Tahrir Square |
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Africa
Cairo, Egypt is located on what continent?
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Red, White, and Black
What the the three colors of the Egyptian flag?
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True
True or False: The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the 7 wonders of the world.
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True
True or False: The Nile River is the longest river in the world.
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True
True or False: Tahrir Square has been a site to many protests and demonstrations over the years.
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True
True or False: Egypt is part of the Middle East.
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An Eagle
What bird is pictured on the Egyptian flag?
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They were built to honor the dead Pharoahs. They are ancient tombs.
Why were the pyramids built? What are pyramids?
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It flows north.
Does the Nile River flow north or south?
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A large and busy traffic circle
What is in the middle Tahrir Square?
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True
True or False: Cairo is the capital of Egypt
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The Egyptian Pound
What is the name of the currency in Egypt?
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Treasures
Pyramids also contained ___________, believing the Pharaohs could take it with them into the afterlife.
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Food, Transportation, Building Materials
What is one thing the Nile provided the ancient Egyptians?
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Liberation
What does Tahrir mean in English?
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Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea
Name a sea that borders Egypt.
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Hyroglifics
What is the word for the ancient Egyptian text/symbols?
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True
True or False: No one really knows how the Pyramids were built.
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Wheat, flax, papyrus
Name one type of crop grown from the Nile's soil.
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the Egyptian Museum, the Folklore Arts House, the Mogamma government building, the Headquarters of the Arab League building, the Nile Hotel, Kasr El Dobara Evangelical Church and the original downtown campus of the American University in Cairo
Name another surrounding place in Tahrir Square.
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Western Desert and Sahara Desert
Name a desert that is located in Egypt.
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Mummies or mummification
Dead Pharaohs and people of power in ancient Egypt were preserved in cloth wrappings. What do we call this?
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The King's Chamber
There are three major rooms in the Great Pyramid, The Grand Gallery, The Queen's Chamber, and __________.
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The Mediterranean Sea
The Nile flows into what sea?
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He lead the resistance against Napoleon I's invasion of Egypt.
On the north-east side of a Tahrir Square with a statue of nationalist hero Umar Makram, what did he do?
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