The Nile River
Why were river valleys influential to the development of Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations?
What is fertile soil.
Which advancements led the construction of pyramids?
What is the invention of 365-day calendar, advancements in mathematics, and advancements in astronomy.
Why did Egypt transitioned from the Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom to the New Kingdom?
What is Pharaohs challenged by nobles from within and outside invaders.
This ruler avoided military conquests and expanded Egypt’s economy.
Who is Hatshepsut.
Why did many buildings in Meroë resembled Egyptian buildings?
What is Egyptian culture influenced Kush.
What effect did Kerma’s specific location on the Nile have?
What is The city would have been better protected from enemy attack.
While building the pyramids, the Egyptians developed?
What is a 365-day calendar with 12 months.
What is the main reason the Middle Kingdom ended.
What is the Hyksos, warriors from western Asia, conquered Egypt.
The Nubian people came from the African savannas south of the?
What is the Sahara.
Most of Egypt’s population were?
What is unskilled workers.
Which aspect of life in the Nile River valley resulted from the effect of the landscape on the people who lived there?
What is natural protection.
Egyptians were loyal to the pharaoh because they thought he was the son of?
What is Re, the Egyptian sun god.
In which dynasty did the pharaohs lose power for 200 years?
What is the Old Kingdom.
This Nubian kingdom was formed when the stronger villages overtook weaker ones.
What is Kerma.
What social class or classes could women belong to in Ancient Egypt?
What is all of them.
Which is a reason the Nile has been called “the lifeblood” of Egypt?
What is its valley and delta provide fertile soil for farming.
They worshiped many gods and goddesses, similarly to the?
What is the Mesopotamians.
Egypt was made up of two large kingdoms by 4000 B.C.
What is Upper and Lower Egypt.
How did Egypt gain land through conquests during the New Kingdom?
What is crossing continental boundaries.
What type of government existed in Egypt after 3100 B.C.?
What is a dynasty.
The Nile River’s flooding could be described as?
What is gentle and predictable.
To prepare for the afterlife, Egyptians studied what book?
What is The Book of the Dead.
Who unified upper and lower Egypt?
Who is Narmer.
Who was King Tut's father who changed Egypt's religion from worshiping many gods to only one?
Who is Akhenaten.
The ancient Egyptian civilization was the first to publish books describing advances in the field of?
What is medicine.