Important People
The top and bottom of the Egyptian social pyramid
Who are Pharaoh and Farmers?
Kushite language.
What is Meroitic script?
the buying and selling of goods
What is commerce?
used hieroglyphics to record important information and maintain reords
Who are scribes?
Why were Kushites motivated to trade?
What is less land to farm?
knowledge Egyptians used to construct pyramids
What is engineering and mathematics?
They collected taxes from farmers and distributed surpluses to officials, priests and merchants for the Pharaoh.
Who is the bureaucracy?
how its location helped Kush become a powerful kingdom.
What is provided a trading link between Egypt and south Africa?
a guide to the afterlife for the souls of the dead
What is the Book of the Dead?
Helped contribute to Egyptian advancements in the field of science by knowing how to preserve the human body.
Who are embalmers?
The area of Egypt that included vast desert areas of burning sands
What is the Red Land?
the new capital of Kush that was located near iron deposits and trade routes.
What is Meroe?
How Egyptian farmers were able to create a food surplus.
What is using irrigation and monitoring the seasons to know when to plant?
She expanded Egypt's wealth by expanding trade.
Who is Hatshepsut?
would create a decrease in crops, and a shortage of food
What is a drought?
creating of Africa's first ironworking center and the invention of one of the world's first alphabets
What are Kushite accomplishments?
the purpose of preserving their bodies.
What is to overcome death?