Lesson 1
The Nile River is surrounded by this type of land.
What is deserts?
Legend says that this Upper Egyptian king led his army into Lower Egypt and joined the two kingdoms in about 3150 B.C.
Who is King Menes?
The kingdom south of Egypt.
What is Nubia?
A triangular-shaped area of soil at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
A god-king.
What is a pharaoh?
The Nile River is ____ miles long, and it is the largest river in the world.
What is 4,000 miles long?
This Egyptian type of writing was based on pictures.
What are hieroglyphics?
Like Egyptians, Nubians built this to get water from the Nile to their crops.
What are irrigation canals?
A mixture of soil and small rocks.
What is silt?
A form of writing made up of pictures and symbols.
What are hieroglyphics?
The Nile River begins in East Africa and flows this way into Egypt.
What is northward?
Historians divided ancient Egypt into these three periods of the kingdom.
What is the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, and the New Kingdom?
This is the written Nubian language.
What is Meroitic?
A plant that was used to make paper.
What is papyrus?
A large stone building that served as a house or tomb for the dead.
What is a pyramid?
The Nile River flows through this body of water that separates into different sections.
What is the Nile Delta?
Egyptians believed that pharaohs were ____ even after they died.
What are gods?
Nubian pyramids are _______ than Egyptian pyramids.
What is smaller?
A waterfall.
What is a cataract?
A preserved body.
What is a mummy?
The Nile River was made up of six of these.
What are cataracts?
The position in the Egyptian class system that is lower than the pharaoh but higher than merchants, craftspeople, etc.
What are nobles and priests?
The Kushites moved south to their capital at this place.
What is Napata?
To join together.
What is to unify?
The way people use and manage resources.
What is an economy?