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Strong rapids that made traveling the Upper Nile difficult
What is a cataract?
belief in one God
What is monotheism?
The Egyptian writing system
What is hieroglyphics?
First people to settle along the Nile.
Who were the hunter-gatherers?
Egyptian burial place for pharaohs
What is a pyramid?
Country in which Nile River is located
What is Egypt?
This is the name for rich soil left by the floods
What is silt?
A reed plant used to make baskets and paper
What was papyrus?
The good rich soil left after the Nile flooded.
What is silt?
This was called the afterlife.
What is life after death?
A series of rulers from one family
What is a dynasty?
Most famous pharaoh of the Old Kingdom
Who was Khufu?
Wild rapids formed by boulders and cliffs
What are cataracts?
This attracted early settlers to the Nile region.
What is good rich farmland?
Specially treated bodies wrapped in a cloth
what is a mummy?
Heavy flooding and the good rich soil left behind earned the Nile this title
What is the Gift of the Nile?
This is how long the Old Kingdom lasted.
What is 500 years?
The mouth of a river
What is a delta?
Unlike in Mesopotamia, farmers along the Nile could predict when this would happen.
What is flooding?
To keep the Ka from suffering the Egyptians developed this.
What is embalming?
Egypt's first pharaoh
Who is Menes?
If the crops did not grow well or if disease struck he was likely to receive the blame and make the people unhappy with him
Who was the pharaoh?
A line of rulers that passes from father to son
What is a dynasty?
This is the country where the Nile is located.
What is Africa?
Egyptians had gods for practically everything. This made their civilization _____________.
What is polytheistic?