The Lifeline of the Nile
The route of the Nile River.
What begins in East Africa and flows northward into Egypt?
The adjective that compares the Nile River to the rest of the rivers in the world.
What is the longest river in the world?
A form of writing the Egyptians developed in order to keep written records.
What is hieroglyphics?
This discovery led to the ability to decode hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
How the land of Nubia is different from the land of Egypt?
Nubia has tall cliffs made of granite rock and rocky soil.
Ways the Nile did not help the Egyptians.
The Nile flooded, destroying crops and killing people.
Between which months did the Egyptians determine that the Nile would flood.
Between May and September.
This made the Egyptians economy more prosperous.
What is trade?
The Egyptian farmers did this while the Nile was flooding their fields.
They helped to build the pyramids.
Why did the Egyptians want granite blocks form Nubia's northern region?
To use in building their temples.
This allowed the Egyptians to track the number of days between flooding cycles.
What are calendars?
This was a benefit of understanding the flood cycles of the Nile.
The Egyptians were able to irrigate their crops.
The ways the Egyptians and Sumerians were similar.
The both developed a form of writing, they both worshipped many gods, and they both granted some rights to women.
The word pharaoh means this.
What is " great house".
This Nubian kingdom became independent about 1650 B.C.
What is Kush?
The three kings who were thought to have unified the two kingdoms of Egypt.
Who were Menes, Scorpion, and Narmer?
During the New Kingdom, Egyptian people began to refer to their king as this.
What is pharaoh?
How were Egyptian pharaohs' bodies prepared for the afterlife?
All organs except for the heart were removed from the body; the body was rubbed with oils and perfumes; the body was wrapped in bandages.
The very powerful woman (who ruled Egypt in place of her nephew) that sent expeditions to other countries to bring riches back to Egypt.
Who was Hatshepsut?
How were the farming tools that the Nubians used compared to tools the Egyptians used?
The Egyptians used wooden tools while the Nubians used sturdy tools to farm.
What pharaohs were considered after their death.
What are gods?
These served as palaces for dead pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
What are two reason why Egypt grew during the Middle Kingdom?
Transportation improved which resulted in more trade. As trade increased, the economy became more prosperous. Also they gained new technology and ideas from the Hyksos.
The reason the ancient Egyptians and the Nubians interacted with each other.
They needed goods and resources from each other.
Describe what led to the decline of the Egyptian civilization.
A series of invasions and the rise in strength of the Nubian kingdom of Kush.