The Nile & Geography
This river flows south to north through Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
This region of Egypt was located in the north and included the Nile Delta.
What is Lower Egypt?
This was the title given to the king of Egypt.
What is Pharaoh?
This period of Egyptian history is famous for the construction of pyramids.
What is the Old Kingdom?
This process preserved the bodies of the dead in Ancient Egypt.
What is mummification?
The Nile's predictable annual flooding deposited this on Egyptian farmland, making it possible to grow crops.
What is fertile/nutrient-rich soil?
This region was located in the south and was associated with the Nile Valley.
What is Upper Egypt?
This Egyptian ruler is associated with uniting Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Narmer?
These monumental structures were built as tombs for pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
Egyptians practiced mummification because they believed in this after death.
What is the afterlife?
This phrase describes the many ways the Nile helped Egyptian civilization survive and prosper.
What is the “Gift of the Nile”?
The ruler of Lower Egypt wore this color crown.
What is red?
This was the Egyptian ideal of truth, harmony, balance, and order.
What is Ma'at?
This pharaoh is associated with the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Who is Khufu?
This government official, priest, and architect was associated with early pyramid construction.
Who is Imhotep?
Upper Egypt was located in this direction, while Lower Egypt was located in the opposite direction.
What is south?
The ruler of Upper Egypt wore a white crown called this, while the ruler of Lower Egypt wore a red crown called the Deshret.
What is the Hedjet?
The pharaoh was responsible for upholding this important Egyptian ideal.
What is Ma'at?
These were stone tombs whose name came from an Egyptian word meaning “bench.”
What are mastabas?
This Egyptian priest and historian organized Egyptian rulers into dynasties.
Who is Manetho?
Name three ways the Nile helped Ancient Egyptian civilization.
What are farming, transportation, water, trade/communication, and providing fertile soil?
Explain why the names “Upper Egypt” and “Lower Egypt” can be confusing.
What is because Upper Egypt is actually in the south and Lower Egypt is in the north because the Nile flows south to north?
Explain why the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt was important.
What is it brought the two lands together under one ruler and created a united Egyptian kingdom?
Name the two pharaohs from this unit associated with the pyramids at Giza.
Who are Khufu and Khafre?
Explain why preserving the body was important to Egyptian beliefs about death.
What is Egyptians believed in an afterlife, so preserving the body was important to their beliefs about existence after death?