Geography
Writing
Other River Valleys
Farming
Miscellaneous
100
Egypt is located on this continent.
What is Africa
100
The Egyptian system of writing
What is Hieroglyphics
100
Annual flooding of this river soaked the land, leaving behind nutrients required to grow crops.
What is the Nile River
200
This river runs from the highlands of Ethiopia to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile
200
Hieroglyphics were written on these items
What is stone tablets and papyrus
200
This factor led to the development of civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia
What is favorable geography
200
The development of permanent settlements around river valleys and alternatives to hunting and gathering
What is the Neolithic Revolution
200
Egyptian society is organized in this fashion
What is a hierarchy
300
The fertile land located along the Nile River.
What is Black Land
300
An important key in decoding hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone
300
This geographic feature had the greatest influence on the development of ancient civilizations
What are rivers
300
The ancient Sumerians and Egyptians modified their environment to increase food production by doing this.
What is digging irrigation canals/building dykes/controlling the river.
300
The rulers in Egypt who held absolute power and were believed to be gods themselves
What are pharaohs
400
The area that is located in southern Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt
400
A religious book that was an Egyptian's guide through the afterlife
What is the Book of the Dead.
400
This geographic feature was common to the development of civilizations in ancient Egypt, China, India, and Mesopotamia.

What are rivers
400
When a society produces crops mainly for its own use.
What is subsistence farming.
400
Re, Osiris, Isis, Amon-Re
What are Egyptian Gods
500
A map that shows elevation, rivers, and land formations
What is a topographic map
500
One similarity found in both Egyptian and Sumerian civilizations is that each developed
What is a written language
500
A geographic feature that the earliest civilizations in Egypt, India, and China had in common
What are rivers that increased the fertility of the land by flooding
500
Long before the rule of pharaohs, Egyptians grew wheat and barley and raised pigs, goats, sheep and cattle. Spotty evidence had suggested that agriculture was practiced there more than 7,000 years ago, two millenniums earlier than the first royal dynasties....— John Noble Wilford, New York Times, February 12, 2008 This excerpt is referring to this period of history
What is the Neolithic Revolution
500
During this period (1539-1075 B.C.) Egypt expanded as far north as Syria and the Euphrates River.
What is the New Kingdom
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