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Raising plants and animals for food or farming is also called...
agriculture
A burial structure...
tomb
The northern area of Egypt, inlcuding the Nile Delta, is called...
Lower Egypt
The southern area of Egypt extending from the Nile desert south to the Nubian Desert...
Upper Egypt
Around 1550 B.C.E. Egyptian prince Ahmose conquered the Hyksos, reuniting Upper and Lower Egypt called the...
New Kingdom
The time from 2055 B.C.E. to 1650 B.C.E. when Egypt's capital was at Thebes is called the...
Middle Kingdom
The time from 2600 B.C.E. to 2200 B.C.E. when the Egyptians build magnificent cities and began to build the pyramids was called the...
Old Kingdom
The Egyptians developed this with 365 days, 12 months, and divided into 3 seasons...
a calendar
Great tombs for pharaohs bulit during the Old Kingdom with a square base and four triangular sides...
pyramid
Egyptians magnificent public buildings like pyramids and the temple like Karnak is an example of...
architecture
Egyptians decorated the walls of tombs and temples with images of historical events and scenes from everyday life called...
art
The Egyptian writing system that used a combination of pictures and sounds is called...
hieroglyphics
The Egyptian book of prayers and magic spells written and used by Egyptians to prepare for the afterlife...
Book of the Dead
A reed plant that grew wild along the NIle that was cut into strips that were pressed together to create a writing surface...
papyrus
The name for the process where priests treated a dead body with oils, removed its internal organs, dried the body out with salts, and then wrapped it in linen...
mummification
The king who, around 3100 B.C.E., united Upper and Lower Egypt through military conquest...
Narmer
She came to power in in Egypt around 1473 B.C.E. ruling with her husband, Thutmose II. After Thutmose's death, she represented herself as a male and made herself pharaoh.
Hatshepsut
He ruled Egypt from 1279 to 1213 B.C.E. expanding the empire by reconquering the region of Canaan and moving north into Syria. He had the temple at Karnak built.
Ramses II
This phraoh tried to make Aton, the sun god, Egypt's only god and changed his own name to a name meaning "one who is brilliant for Aton".
Akhenaton
This pharaoh lived around the 1300 B.C.E. During his short reign he established the worship of the old gods and goddesses after the rule of Akhenaton. His tomb is the only pharoah's tomb that was found undisturbed.
Tutankhamen
This kigdom emerged in present-day Ethiopia and became a thriving trading center for the Mediterranean world and East Africa. In 350 C.E. this kingdom invaded Kush and destroyed its capital, Meroe.
Axum
Hard materials such a gold, silver, copper, bronze and, iron that can be used to make tools, weapons, and, jewelry.
metal
A material burned for it pleasant smell that Egyptians obtained through trade in Arabian ports and Kerma.
incense
Woven cloth that the Egyptians made from flax and also traded with Rome for the same product made from cotton...
textile
This class of people in ancient Egypt included traders, shopkeepers, and artisans such as weavers, potters, and jewelers...
middle class
A way of social organization that includes a priviledged upper class and hard working and impoverished lower classes...
hierarchy
Countries or cultures that rely on trade with each other to obtain goods they value...
trading partners
The area of southwest Asia between Africa and Meopotamia, surrounding the Arabian Desert and the Arabian Peninsula...
Arabia
The name for an ancient trading culture located on the eastern Mediterranean coast in the area of present-day Syria and Lebanon...
Phoenicia
This place includes the area east and south of Sudan and includes present-day Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania...
East Africa
A Nubian kingdom of the southern Nile River Valley and was conquered by Egypt in the 1400's B.C.E....
Kerma
The world's longest river, it flows north through the Egyptian Desert into the Mediterranean Sea, at its mouth is a large delta of fertile marshland...
Nile River
An area with extremely low rainfall and little vegetation, helped Egypt to be protected from invaders...
desert
A rough and rapid section of a river, made the Nile difficult to invade...
cataracts
An area where a rivers splits or spreads before it flows into the sea, on the Nile it was an area of rich farmland...
delta
a. What the Egyptians called the rich, black soil created by Nile flooding...
b. What the Egyptians called the hot and dry desert land...
a. black land
b. red land
A grassy plain with few trees, Nubia was covered in these types of landforms...
savanna
The largest desert in the world, covers most of the northern part of Africa...
Sahara Desert
The area of fertile soil created as the Nile River passes through the desert...
Nile River Valley
Formed by the Nubians in 850 B.C.E. in Upper Egypt, south of Thebes, its capital was Napata...
Kush
Pharaohs relied on government officials, or __________ , to help them carry out their orders.
bureaucrats
Priests worked carefully to __________ the bodies of the dead, making mummies that were then buried in tombs.
embalm
The land along the Nile River in the Sudan is covered by __________ that provided the Nubians grass to feed their livestock.
savannahs
. Kushites had large trade networks that brought them many valuable goods, including __________ that could be used to make clothing.
textiles
Pharaohs passed the right to rule on to their children, establishing a(n) __________ that ruled Egypt for many years.
dynasty
6. Ancient Egyptians developed the first -
medical books
Why was Lower Egypt north of Upper Egypt?
The Nile River flowed south to north.
How do Egyptians use a shadoof?
to lift buckets of water from the Nile onto dry land
Who was Osiris to the ancient Egyptians?
god of the afterlife