a flat grassland, sometimes with scattered trees, in a tropical or subtropical region.
What is a savannah
100
Waterways such as the Nile, Mediterranean Sea, and Read sea were useful for ______ and ______ which helped the development of the ancient Egyptian civilization.
What is travel and trade?
100
Egyptian river god
Who is Hapi?
100
This ruler united Upper and Lower Egypt
Who is Narmer?
100
Woven cloth.
What is textile?
200
A waterfall or rapids in a river.
What is a cataract?
200
This sea is to the north of the Nile river.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
Egyptian sun god.
Who is Re?
200
Pharaohs and other rulers exchanged _______ to maintain close ties.
What are envoys?
200
This Nubian Kingdom was formed when stronger villages overtook weaker ones.
What is Kerma?
300
a material that produces a pleasant smell when burned
What is incense?
300
This sea is to the east of the Nile river.
What is the Red Sea?
300
Osiris was the lord of the ___________.
What is the afterworld?
300
This king drove the Hyksos out of Egypt during the Middle Kingdom.
Who is Ahmose?
300
This city was located on the upper Nile which allowed it to become a favorable location for trade for trade caravans.
What is Napata?
400
a government representative to another country
What is an envoy?
400
These natural barriers contributed to the development of ancient Egypt's civilization by keeping invaders out.
What are cataracts?
400
The Egyptians built pyramids to honor their pharaohs for this purpose.
What is to protect the pharaohs' bodies from floods, animals and robbers. Personal belongings placed with them to make the pharaohs happy in the afterlife.
400
This person who later became a pharaoh was the first great engineer who built the pyramids.
Who is Imhotep?
400
This group invaded Kush and destroyed the capital city of Meroe.
What is Axum?
500
fan-shaped area of fertile marshland
What is a delta?
500
The Nile River's flooding could be described as either unpredictable or predictable.
What is predictable?
500
Rights for women in ancient Egypt included...
What is own and pass on property and buy and sell goods. Right to make wills and obtain divorces. Upper class women tended to temples and performed religious ceremonies (priests).
500
The capital city of Egypt during the Old Kingdom.
What is Memphis?
500
Meroe was different from a typical Egyptian or Kushite city because...
What is it was the center of iron production and had iron furnaces.