Vocabulary
The system of using a bucket on a weighted pole to take water from the river.
What is a shadoof?
This Pharaoh contributed most of the growth of trade in the New Kingdom.
Who is Hatshepsut?
Adopted many of the beliefs and custom of Egyptian culture, lived in modern-day Sudan
Who are the Nubians?
The wife of Amenhotep IV.
Who is Nefertiti?
Groups of traveling traders from central Africa, bringing ivory and other goods.
What are caravans?
Formed and army and drove the the Hyksos out of Egypt.
Who is prince Ahmose?
Egyptian arts and architecture thrived during this Kingdom period.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
This job employed most people in Egypt.
What is a farmer or herder?
Name of the desert that lies to the West of Egypt.
What is the Sahara?
Egyptians believed these people were sons of the gods.
Who are pharaohs?
What city became the capital after Memphis?
What is Thebes?
What was the name of the new god introduced by Amenhotep IV?
Aton
These were spices and herbs that would be burned for their smell for religious reasons.
What is incense?
Dressed up in clothes of male pharaoh in order to be accepted by the Egyptian people.
Who is Hatshepsut?
What name did the Egyptians call Egypt?
What is Kemet (the Black Land)?
Pharaoh who reconquered the lands to the south and moved north into Syria and reunited the empire.
Who is Ramses II?
Kush's merchants traded iron products and other items to places far away as...
Tomb was found nearly untouched by Howard Carter in 1922.
Who is Tutankhamen?
The Pyramids were made out of this many blocks, each weighing this much.
What is 2 million blocks weighing 2.5 tons each.
Forced payments
What is tribute?