De Nile
True or False: the Nile River is the longest river in the world.
What is true?
The other term for a king in ancient Egypt
What is pharaoh?
True or False: The Egyptians traded goods such as wheat, gold, and tools to the Phoenicians for much needed wood
What is true?
The Kush were in power until which year
a. A.D. 350
b. 350 B.C.
c. 1000 B.C.
d. 550 B.C.
Early Egyptians built pyramids for this reason
What is to bury a pharaoh?
This is the term for the fertile marshland that formed where the Nile River meets the Mediterranean Sea.
What is delta?
The term for the system of symbols that represent sounds
What are hieroglyphics?
The name of the warrior tribe that conquered Egypt in the late 1600s B.C.
What is the Hyksos?
The Kush kingdom originated in the savannas near which desert?
What is the Sahara Desert?
The Great Pyramid (the oldest in Egypt) is located in which city?
What is Giza?
Egyptians wrote on this type of reed plant that was used to make paper
What is papyrus?
The process of wrapping a body in strips of linen to preserve a body
What is mummification?
The New Kingdom prospered because of this female pharaoh's desire to trade rather than start wars
Who is Hatshepsut?
Kush was previously known as this civilization
What is Nubia?
During the New Kingdom, pharaohs were buried in this "Valley"
What is the Valley of the Kings?
This is the term for a line of rulers from one family
What is dynasty?
The term for a government led by a religious and political leader
What is theocracy?
He is known as "the boy king"
Who is King Tut?
This civilization was able to defeat the Kush using iron, rather than bronze, weapons
Who were the Assyrians?
Ancient Egyptians worshiped this sun god as their chief god
Who is Ra/Re?
Name four reasons why the Nile River was important to the ancient Egyptians.
What is water for crops, drinking, bathing, transportation, trading, security against attack?
Name an Egyptian for each member of the social classes
Upper (pharaoh, vizier, priests, gov't. officials/nobles)
Middle (trader, artisan, shopkeeper, scribe; herder, farmer)
Lower (unskilled workers/laborers, slaves)This pharaoh was responsible for building new temples during the New Kingdom period
Who is Ramses II?
This happened in 728 B.C.
What is the Kush conquered Egypt?
Who is Narmer?