Geography
What river flows north through Egypt?
What is the Nile River?
What was the Egyptian concept of truth, balance, and order?
What is Ma'at?
What writing system did Egyptians use?
What are hieroglyphics?
What were rulers of Egypt called?
Who are pharaohs?
What goods were commonly traded in Egypt?
What are grain, gold, papyrus, linen?
What is the fertile triangle-shaped region at the mouth of the Nile?
What is the Nile Delta?
Why did Egyptians mummify bodies?
What is to prepare for the afterlife?
What discovery helped decode hieroglyphics?
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Who unified Upper and Lower Egypt?
Who is Menes/Narmer?
What goods came from Kush?
What are iron tools, gold, ivory, ebony?
Where is Upper Egypt located?
What is in Southern Egypt?
Name one organ removed during mummification.
What are liver, lungs, stomach, or intestines?
What writing system did the Kushites create?
What is Meroitic Script?
What are the three major kingdom periods of Egypt?
What are Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms?
What type of economy did Egypt rely on?
What is agricultural and trade economy?
What physical features protected Egypt from invasion?
What are deserts and cataracts?
Why did Egyptians use natron?
What is to dry out the body during mummification?
Why did Egyptians stop building pyramids?
What is they were too expensive and often robbed?
Name the Kushite ruler who conquered Egypt.
Who is Piankhi/Piye?
Why was the Nile important to Egypt’s economy?
What is it provided fertile land, transportation, and trade routes?
Where was the homeland of Kush located?
Where is south of Egypt, along the upper Nile (Nubia)?
What was the purpose of the pyramids?
What is as tombs for the pharaohs?
What were the main materials used in pyramid construction?
What are stone blocks, copper tools, sledges, ramps?
Which female pharaoh expanded trade and built a great temple at Deir el-Bahri?
Who is Hatshepsut?
What caused Kush’s economy to decline?
What is overuse of iron resources and changing trade routes?