The Nile
These were the two most important life sustaining gifts of the Nile.
What is water for crops/drinking and fertile land for farming?
What is polytheism?
She was the first female pharaoh, known for her expansion of the Egyptian empire through trade and peace.
Who is Hatshepsut?
Triangle shaped area of land at the mouth of a river formed by deposits of silt.
What is a delta?
This was the purpose of a pyramid.
What are tombs for the pharaohs.
This Egyptian achievement was invented to help the Egyptian people better use the Nile to their advantage.
What is: a shadoof? a boat? a Nileometer? etc.
This person was worshipped as a god on earth as well as the head of the government.
He was Hatshepsut's stepson and nephew known for using slave warriors to conquer foreign threats.
Who is Thutmose III
A series of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
This is where Egyptian pharaohs were buried during the New Kingdom. It was well hidden unlike the pyramids.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
This is how the Nile affected the Egyptian economy.
What is any of: providing rich farmland, easy trade routes, grain for currency, determining taxes etc.
What is preparing the body for the afterlife?
He was the son of Amenotep known for challenging the old gods and starting his own monotheistic religion.
Who is Akhenaten?
Digging canals to trap or transport water from a larger water source to water crops.
What is irrigation?
What is papyrus?
This is how the Nile interacted/affected Egyptian religion.
What is any of: mythology, believed gods controlled the amount of flooding of the Nile, Temples along the Nile for individual gods, etc.
The belief in this shaped the everyday actions of Egyptian people and was the reason behind rituals such as mummification.
What is belief in the afterlife?
He was known for building more monuments than any other pharaoh.
Who is Ramses the Great?
Describes the process of preparing the body for mummification.
What is embalming?
This was the Egyptian form of writing designed for record keeping.
What are hieroglyphics?
This is how the Nile interacted with Egyptian politics.
What is any of: Pharaoh was responsible for the amount of flooding, amount of offerings to priests, etc.
What is offerings?
He was not a well known pharaoh, but he is famous today because we discovered his entire tomb intact.
Who is Tutankhamun?
Another name for waterfalls and rapids along the Nile river.
What are cataracts?
This was invented by the Hyksos and later adopted by the Egyptians to be used in war.
What are chariots?