The two main ancient civilizations in existence in NE Africa...
What is Egypt and Kush?
100
Ancient Egyptians depended on the Nile for drinking and bathing. The river also supplied water to grow crops. To the Egyptians, the Nile was the "_____."
What is creator of all good?
100
Two natural barriers to invasion in Ancient Egypt were _____ and _____.
What is cataracts and deserts?
100
During the dry season, Egyptian farmers irrigated their crops. They scooped out _____, or bowl-shaped holes, in the earth to store river water.
What is basins?
100
Some Egyptian men, however, attended special schools to prepare for careers as _____ in government or business.
What is scribes?
200
The Nile River valley was ideal for human settlement because of its _____ land.
What is fertile?
200
"You create the grain, you bring forth the barley,
Assuring perpetuity [survival] to the temples.
If you cease your toil and your work,
Then all that exists is in anguish [suffering]."
—from "Hymn to the Nile" What type of source is this?
What is primary?
200
The Egyptians, though isolated, were not completely cut off from other peoples. The _____ Sea to the north and the _____ Sea to the east provided routes for trade.
What is Mediterranean and Red?
200
Egyptian farmers created a _____, which is a bucket attached to a long pole that lifts water from the Nile and empties it into basins.
What is shadoof (shuh • DOOF)?
200
For their daily tasks, Egyptian scribes developed a simpler script that they _____ or _____ on papyrus. These same scribes carved hieroglyphics onto _____ walls and monuments.
What is wrote, painted, and stone?
300
As early as _____ b.c., hunters and gatherers from the drier areas of Africa and Southwest Asia began to move into the Nile River valley.
What is 5000?
300
It is the Nile that flows north about _____ from central Africa to the Mediterranean Sea. It has been called the "_____" of Egypt.
What is 4,000 miles (6,437 km) and lifeblood?
300
Egyptians took advantage of the region's _____ patterns so that they could travel and trade.
What is wind?
300
Farmers used _____ to help them recalculate where one field began and the other ended after floods washed away the original boundaries.
What is geometry?
300
Protected from outside attacks by desert barriers, Egyptian farmers were able to grow _____—extra amounts—of food.
What is surpluses?
400
The early Egyptians lived in the northern region of the Nile River valley. They called their land _____, which means "black land," after the dark, rich soil.
What is Kemet (KEH • meht)?
400
The _____ Nile begins in the snowy mountains of eastern Africa. The _____ Nile starts in the tropics of central Africa.
What is Blue and White?
400
In Egypt, however, the flooding of the Nile River was _____ and consistent from year to year.
What is seasonal?
400
Egyptians gathered _____ , a reed plant that grew wild along the Nile to weave rope, sandals, baskets, and river rafts. Later, they used this material to make paper.
What is papyrus (puh • PY • ruhs)?
400
In Egypt, as in Mesopotamia, extra food meant that some people could leave farming to work in other _____ .
What is occupations?
500
Kemet was later called _____.
What is Egypt?
500
Shortly before the Nile reaches the Mediterranean Sea, it splits into many branches that resemble a plant's bloom. These waterways form a fan-shaped area of fertile marshland called a _____.
What is delta (DEHL • tuh)?
500
Farmers planted _____, _____, and _____ seeds while the soil was still wet.
What is wheat, barley, and flax?
500
The ancient Egyptians created combination of pictures and sound symbols making up a complex writing system called _____.
What is hieroglyphics (hy • ruh • GLIH • hks)?
500
Before long, Egyptian caravans were carrying goods to _____ to the south, to the northeast, and other places outside Egypt's borders.