Geography
What is a place where water can be found in a desert?
An oasis
What is silt?
Rich soil
What is the term for the ruler of Ancient Egypt?
Pharaoh.
What is the name of the Canal, in North Africa, that many countries have tried to take control of?
The Suez Canal
What is the most important primary industry in North Africa?
Oil production.
What is a flat plain formed on the seabed where river deposits material over many years.
A delta.
What is a theocracy?
A government based on religion.
What were hieroglyphics used for?
They were used for government records, to write about history, and religious purposes.
What is the name of the Peninsula that many countries have fought for?
Sinai Peninsula
Who are the Copts?
A Christian minority living in Egypt.
What are nomads?
People who move from place to place without a permanent home.
What are hieroglyphics?
Why did the Egyptians stop building pyramids?
They were getting robbed.
Who are the Berbers?
The native people of North Africa.
What is the idea that religion and government should be kept separate?
Secularism
What is urbanization?
When large groups of people move into the cities, and those cities start getting larger.
What is a mummy?
A that that has been preserved so it will not decompose.
Who was the last Greek ruler of Egypt?
Cleopatra.
What is the idea that all Arabic speaking people should unite into one country?
Pan-Arabism
What is the number that reflects a country's average life expectancy, education, income, and other factors?
Human Development Index
What is desertification?
The process of land becoming a desert.
Explain how the Nile flooding led to the building of the Pyramids.
The Nile flooding meant that farming created a surplus. This surplus meant people could focus on new things. Eventually the pharaohs wanted bigger and bigger tombs. Egyptians could focus on how to build pyramids because they didn't have to worry about food.
Why were pharaohs buried with things?
Egyptians believed that whatever you were buried with, you took with you into the afterlife.
What happened to Egypt in 2011?
They had a revolution and overthrew their president.
What is the difference between GDP and GDP per capita?
GDP is the total value of all goods and services a country produces in a single year, GDP per capita is that number, divided by the total population.