Nile River
Rulers
Life in Ancient Egypt
Life in Ancient Egypt
Kush
100
What type of land bordered the Nile River in Egypt?
Deserts
100
What is the line of rulers that passes power from a father to his son?
Dynasty
100
Where was the place where Egyptian families spent time together?
Rooftops.
100
Which class of Egyptian society was made up of traders, artisans, and scribes?
Middle class.
100
Historians think the Nubian people came from the African savannas south of where?
The Sahara.
200
Why was the Nile so important to Ancient Egyptians?
It provided them with water for drinking and crops production.
200
Under which leader’s rule did Egypt lose most of its lands in western Asia to outside invaders?
Akhenaton
200
What were the forced payments sent to the pharaoh by conquered peoples are called?
Tributes.
200
What was the Egyptian invention to prevent the pharaoh’s body from decomposing?
The act of embalming.
200
How were the pyramids of the Kushites different from those of the Egyptians?
They built smaller pyramids that were more steeply sloped.
300
What is the name for the waterfalls or rapids along the Nile that helped provide defense for Egypt?
Cataracts
300
Who tried to give the Egyptians a new religion?
Amenhotep.
300
What is an embalmed body wrapped in cloth strips called?
A mummy.
300
What did bureaucrats, or elected officials, appointed by the pharaoh do?
They collected tax payments of grain from farmers.
300
What resource did the Kushites build their cities near in order to increase trade?
Iron ore.
400
What did the Egyptians use a shadoof for?
To transfer river water to storage basins.
400
Where was Narmera king of?
Upper Egypt.
400
A diagram of Egypt’s social classes has the shape of what?
A pyramid.
400
What group of people was largely responsible for building the Great Pyramids?
Farmers.
400
What are savannas?
Flat grassland, sometimes with scattered trees, in a tropical or subtropical region.
500
The rivers of Mesopotamia and Egypt all flooded. What was the major difference in how the Tigris & Euphrates flooded and how the Nile flooded?
The Nile was far more predictable and flooded on a routine schedule, while the Tigris and Euphrates were far harder to anticipate.
500
Who was the king that drove the Hyksos out of Egypt?
Ahmose.
500
Who was the chief god of the Egyptians?
Re.
500
What did King Tutankhamen do to restore a sense of normalcy to Egyptians?
He brought back the polytheistic religion that Egypt had prior to Amenhotep.
500
What were the names of the Kushite father and son who overthrew Egypt?
Kashta and Piye
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