Geography
The river on which Egypt is located.
Nile
Pharaoh
The Middle Kingdom is known for its advances in which two disciplines?
Art and Architecture
Egypt reached the peak of its power during this kingdom's period of time.
New Kingdom
The salt used by Egyptians to mummify bodies.
Natron
This feature of the Nile covers the land in silt and allowed Egypt to grow crops.
Annual flooding.
The system of government that eventually formed in the Old Kingdom, in which there is no separation between the religion and the state.
Theocracy
What technology did the Hyksos have the allowed them to conquer the Middle Kingdom?
Chariots
Conquest
A book containing instructions for how to get through the afterlife safely.
Book of the Dead
This feature of the Nile River divides Upper Egypt from Lower Egypt.
The first cataract.
The Old Kingdom pharaoh best known for the Great Pyramid.
Khufu
Which pharaoh drove out the Hyksos, finally ending a 200-year foreign rule?
Ahmose
One of Egypt's most notable pharaohs, SHE expanded trade and built a great temple near Thebes.
Hatshepsut
Which came first; Hellenistic Egypt or Roman Egypt?
Hellenistic
True or False: The crown of Lower Egypt was red, where the crown of Upper Egypt was white.
True
Wood
How was art produced by the Middle Kingdom different from that produced by the Old Kingdom?
It reflected everyday people rather than just pharaohs and nobles.
One of the most ornate temples that survives, built at Luxor.
The main Egyptian sun god who was briefly replaced by the worship of Aten (though the worship of multiple gods was reinstated by Akhenaten's son, Tutankhamun).
The Nile flows north into the Mediterranean Sea.
Who was higher on the Egyptian social scale, soldiers or merchants?
Soldiers
Name ONE reason that the Old Kingdom fell.
1. Severe climate change that led to a drought.
2. Pharaohs were unable to keep up with the cost of large building projects.
3. Power decentralized and was taken over by the nobility and priests.
Thought to be the largest chariot battle in history, fought between the Egyptians led by Ramses II and the Hittites.
Battle of Kadesh
The Egyptian word for soul; this had to reach the afterlife with a heart of equal or lesser weight to the feather of Ma'at.
Ka