Enviromental Factors
This environmental factor is the plants of a place or region.
What is vegetation?
One physical feature was most important to ancient settlers in Egypt and Kush. Because of how important it was, people settled: a) near a river. b) on hills. c) around trees. d) in a desert.
What is a) near a river? (By the way, the important physical feature was the Nile River. Don't forget that fact!)
The reason the Ancient Egyptians focus so much on building Pyramids or elaborate tombs stuffed full of wealth for the dead Pharaohs.
What is they believed the wealth would follow the pharaohs into the afterlife?
How was the Jordan River different from the Nile River. a) It was salt water b) It was home to many fish c) It did not flood regularly d) It did not have a strong current
The Jordan River did not flood regularly (c).
What do archaeologists do?
Who are people that study artifacts?
The mouth of the Nile River where the Nile meets the Mediterranean sea.
What is the delta?
How did the Nile River help farmers?
The river flooded its banks every summer and created fertile valleys of soil.
The sun god. He was the most important god of the ancient Egyptians. The ancient Egyptians believed he was swallowed every night by the sky goddess Nut, and was reborn every morning.
Who is Ra?
Judaism is the first religion to practice this belief in one God.
What is monotheism?
The three periods of relative internal peace and prosperity in Ancient Egypt.
What are the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom?
Describe the period of Inundation that occurred every year in Egypt between June and September.
What is flood?
How did ancient Egyptian settlements benefit by being surrounded by desert? a) The desert had good land for growing crops. b) The desert made trade and travel easy. c) The desert offered protection from invaders. d) The desert had plants sheep could graze on.
What is c) the desert offered protection from invaders?
The god of embalming and the dead. Since jackals were often seen in cemeteries, the ancient Egyptians believed that he watched over the dead.
Who is Anubis?
The Ancient Egyptian written language.
What is Hieroglyphs?
The pharaoh credited with building the first pyramid around 2667 B.C.E. also known as the Step Pyramid.
Who is Djosar?
This was an element of ancient Egypt's topography. a) a mild climate b) a river valley c) the fertility of the soil d) the length of the growing season
What is a river valley?
The reason people in Egypt and the rest of North Africa couldn't drink the water in the Mediterranean Sea.
What is salt water?
Ancient Egyptian religion was a complex system of beliefs and rituals which were an integral part of ancient Egyptian society. It centered on the Egyptians' interaction with many deities who were believed to be present in, and in control of, the forces and elements of nature.
The term that describes the belief in many deities.
What is polytheistic?
The holy book of the Jewish faith and the Hebrew people.
What is the Torah?
An oval with a horizontal line at one end, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name.
What is a Cartouche?
Another name for the rich dark soil that covered the banks of the Nile when the water level decreased in October.
What is silt?
Where the Kushites settled.
Where is the southern part of the Nile River?
Or
What is on the Nile upstream from upper Egypt?
The goddess and the personification of truth and justice. Her ostrich feather represents truth.
Who is Maat?
The discovery of this stone helped translate Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
These jars were four in number, each for the safekeeping of particular human organs: the stomach, intestines, lungs, and liver, all of which, it was believed, would be needed in the afterlife.
What are Canopic Jars?