Nile Valley
The geography of ancient Egypt included desert areas of burning sands is known as what?
What is the Red Land?
Skilled artists created paintings on the interior wall of the pyramids and burial chambers depicting daily Egyptian life primarily to provide the person buried with what?
What is servants and things they needed?
What is transportation?
In order to construct the pyramids, the Egyptians needed to be proficient in the fields of engineering and what?
What is mathematics?
Which ancient Egyptian leader fought against the Hittites in the area that was then Kadesh?
Who was Ramses II?
The Egyptians developed a calendar with 365 days that was called what?
What is the solar calendar?
In order to overcome death like Osiris, Egyptians believed that they needed to preserve what?
What is their bodies for the afterlife?
How were the Egyptians able to predict when the Nile would flood each year?
What is they watched the horizon for the star Sirius to appear?
The Nile delta formed the region known as what?
What is Lower Egypt?
What aspects of its culture did Nubia take from Egypt?
What is gods and the use of pyramids?
The most important god of all those worshipped by the Egyptians was who?
Who was Amon-Re, the sun god?
Ideas spread from Egypt to other lands through the buying and selling of goods and services, which was called what?
What is commerce?
Because of the groups of rocky rapids called the Nile cataracts, the (what?) could not travel upstream from Egypt.
What is ships?
The Nubians did NOT have the same culture as who?
Who are the Egyptians?
According to legend, the first pharaoh and leader who united the Kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt was who?
Who was Menes?
What effect did continue trading with Egypt have on Nubian civilization?
What is Nubians adopted many of the elements of the Egyptian culture?
The Book of the Dead was a well-known piece of Egyptian literature that served as what?
What is a guide to the afterlife for dead souls?
Because Nubians had less land to farm than Egyptians, there were more motivated to do what?
What is a trade?
In ancient Egypt, those responsible for using hieroglyphics to record important information and maintain records were called what?
What is scribes?
The soil of the Nile River Valley is best characterized as what?
What is fertile?