People
What is a person who wanders or roams around called?
Nomad
The Nile River is on which continent?
Africa
The Nile
Who was among the earliest people to use writing?
The Egyptians
Did Egyptians worship one god or many gods?
Eventually nomads settled down and began to be ____
Farmers
Shaped like a moon, this was one of the best places for the earliest people to live.
The Fertile Crescent
What did the Nile do every year?
Egyptians wrote with pictures called what?
Hieroglyphics
Which god tricked their brother into lying down in a coffin?
Set
Egypt used to be divided into two tribes along the Nile. What were they called?
Lower Egyptians and Upper Egyptians
The area at the top of the Nile river where it splits into several different little rives is called what?
Nile Delta
Why was it good that the Nile flooded each year?
Because it would bring up rich dirt that was good for the plants
Sumerians were also one of the earliest people to use writing, what did they write on?
Clay
The Egyptian ______ was worshipped as a god.
pharaoh
The king of Egypt was known as the _____
Pharaoh
Stone walls
Mesopotamia is between which two rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What is the name of the paper that Egyptians would make out of reeds from the Nile River?
Papyrus
Egyptian stories about gods often tried to explain why ______ happened.
Who won the battle between the Red King and White King?
The White King
What is the name of one of the earliest cities?
Jericho
Early farmers used a ______ in the river to help water their crops
Shaduf
Which writing material was best because it was strong and lasted a long time?
Stone
What was the name of Set's brother who was thrown into the River in a coffin?
Osiris