The location of the sources of both the Blue Nile and White Nile cause the Nile itself to run the opposite direction of most rivers.
What is south to north?
100
The most important resource the Nile people have is this.
What is the fresh water in the Nile River.
100
Because the Egyptians embalmed bodies, they learned about the systems of the body and wrote this.
What is the first medical book?
100
The Egyptians believed that the pharaoh would still care for Egypt if his spirit reached this place.
What is the next world?
200
Although people had been farming in the Nile Valley since about 5000 BCE, the region did not become a civilization until King Narmer did this in 3100 BCE.
What is he united Upper and Lower Egypt.
200
The mouth of the Nile River is this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea.
200
An important resource that is left after the Nile's floodwaters recede is this.
What is silt.
200
Among the architectural accomplishments of the Nile people are the Great Pyramid at Giza, the Great Sphinx, and this burial area.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
200
The Egyptians were the first to include this in their religious beliefs.
What is an afterlife?
300
Khartoum, in present-day Sudan, is where this begins.
What is the Nile River Valley.
300
The Nile is the longest river in the world, stretching
this many miles from beginning to end.
What is 4000 miles?
300
This resource grew in the Nile Valley naturally at first. Later, the Egyptians cultivated it.
What is papyrus.
300
In addition to having 365 days, this also was divided into twelve months.
What is the Nile calendar?
300
The Egyptians embalmed and mummified pharaohs' bodies for this reason.
What is so that its spirit could leave the body and return to it.
400
The climate in northern Africa began to change in about 6000 BCE. By 5000 BCE, the environment there had become this.
What is a desert.
400
This mountain range is the source of the Blue Nile River.
What is the Ethiopian Highlands.
400
The Nile floods were very different from the floods the Sumarians endured. The Nile floods were described with these words:
What are predictable and non-violent.
400
The invention of geometry and fractions not only helped with building the pyramids, the Egyptians used it in order to do this, as well.
What is measure land boundaries?
400
Narmer was the first pharaoh, and started the first one of these in ancient Egypt.
What is a dynasty of rulers?
500
Lower Egypt is the delta region. Upper Egypt is located here.
What is in the southern part of eastern Africa.
500
This body of water is the source of the White Nile River.
What is Lake Victoria.
500
Without this resource that the Nile people made paper from, we might not know nearly as much as we do about the history of the Nile people.
What is papyrus.
500
This ancient mechanism was--and still is--used to move water from the Nile to irrigation ditches.
What is the shadoof?
500
Having ruled for sixty-six years and accomplishing many things, Ramses II came to be known as this.
What is the most powerful pharaoh in Egypt's history?