Key Places and Kingdoms
The fertile area where Egyptians farmed
What is the Nile Delta?
Name for Egypts kings in the New Kingdom
What is pharaoh?
The boy king who's tomb and treasure were found in the early 1900s.
Who is King Tutankhamen? (King Tut)
They built irrigation ditches.
How did Egyptian farmers deal with droughts?
The Egyptians practiced this worship of many gods.
What is polytheism.
The capital city of Egypt when it was first united.
What is Memphis?
He was the pharaoh when Moses led the Hebrew people out of Egypt.
Who is Ramses the Great?
Every time a new family began to rule in Egypt, a new _____________ began.
What is dynasty?
They built dams and dikes.
How did Egyptian farmers control flooding?
Egyptian _________ wrote their religious beliefs and government records on _________.
scribes
papyrus
Period of time when most pyramids were built.
What is the Old Kingdom?
Small waterfalls in the Nile River
What are cataracts?
She was the first female pharaoh.
Who is Hatshepsut?
Droughts and flooding caused this shortage of crops and food.
What is famine?
Egyptians believed they would need their __________ in the __________.
Egyptians believed they would need their bodies in the afterlife
The Middle Kingdom lasted about this long.
What is 500 years?
These were dangerous for sailors traveling the Nile.
What are cataracts?
What was the unusual thing that King Amenhotep IV did during his reign?
He forced all Egyptians to worship only one god (the god of the sun - Aton)
Successful farming led to a surplus of __________ and __________, which made it possible for Egyptians to __________.
A surplus of wheat and barley, led Egyptians to trade
The 5 C's ...
What are circumstances, characters, conflict, change, and Christ.
The main purpose of pyramids
What was to give Egypt's kings a burial place and everything they would need to live in the afterlife?
symbol writing of the Egyptians
What are hieroglyphs?
Hatshepsut's reign ended because of this.
Her son was finally old enough to rule, so he took over. Her reign did not end because of death, as is the traditional means for a monarch's reign to end.
Egyptians traded wheat and barley for these materials which they had little of.
What are copper, wood, gold, etc (ivory, silver, incense)
How is God (Christ) rejected in the period of Ancient Egypt?
God is rejected because
- the Egyptians mostly worshiped many gods (polytheistic)
- When they worshiped one god, it was not the true God (served Aton)
- when the Hebrews asked to leave, they refused God's request and were punished by plagues sent by God to show His power