Nile River
The Kingdoms
This and That
Pyramids,
Mummies, and other stuff.
Egypt misc.
100
The Nile empties into this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
100
A time of unification, when government was formed and organized.
What is the Old Kingdom?
100
A system of writing for Egypt.
What is hieroglyphics?
100
Is the belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
100
An area good for farming, with flat land. The Nile leaves rich silt here.
What is Lower Egypt?
200
A reed plant that grows along the Nile River, used to make paper.
What is papyrus?
200
Egyptian society was shaped by this.
What is a social pyramid?
200
Egypt society was shaped by this.
What is a social pyramid?
200
Huge stone structures built as tombs.
What is a pyramid?
200
Unified Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Menes?
300
The Nile River flows in this direction.
What is North?
300
Egypt prospered and expanded into a great empire.
What is the New Kingdom?
300
A journey undertaken for a specific purpose.
What is an expedition?
300
The process of preserving a dead body through embalming and drying.
What is mummification?
300
Fertile, flat land made of silt. The river divides into several branches, forming a vast, fan shape.
What is a delta?
400
Steep rapids in a river.
What is a cataract?
400
A time of change and prosperity. Egyptian rights were gained.
What is the Middle Kingdom.
400
Steps used to measure yearly floods.
What is a nilometer?
400
They did not use money, was based on surplus of crops, and the pharaoh took part of everything made in Egypt.
What is Ancient Egypt's economy?
400
Landscape was rugged and rocky.
What is Upper Egypt?
500
The Nile River left this behind when it flooded.
What is silt?
500
The joining of Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt into one kingdom.
What is unification?
500
The way a country manages its resources to produce goods and services.
What is an economy?
500
It has 3 different languages written on it; dimotic, hieroglyphics, and Greek. Because of this and Jean Champollion we are able to read hieroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
500
An important city, due to its gold.
What is Nubia?
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