Among the resources that were gathered along the Nile were plant life. This term refers to the plant life that lives and grows in a region.
What is vegetation?
100
Meroe's location gave it great deposits of this mineral that they used to make tools and weapons.
What is iron?
100
Both the Kushites and the Egyptians relied greatly on this body of water for their livelihood.
What is the Nile?
100
When the Kushites took over Egypt, they established this number dynasty.
What is 25th?
100
The world'd oldest civilization.
What is Sumer?
200
Most people lived along the Nile because the deserts were too hot and dry. These types of storms could also occur, some so bad they could block out the sun!
What are sandstorms?
200
Kush's location also gave it a plentiful supply of trees which were used to make this resource, which fueled the furnaces to make metal.
What is charcoal?
200
We refer to Kush as a trading ______, because it was a center of goods being exchanged.
What is a hub?
200
This king defeated the Egyptians and established the rule of a Kushite dynasty in Egypt that would last a century.
Who is King Piye?
200
Mesopotamian's invented these systems to carry and store water for agricultural purposes.
What are irrigation systems?
300
This body of water separates northern Africa and Egypt from Europe.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
300
Before the capital of Meroe was established, this former capital of Kush was destroyed.
What is Napata?
300
Gold was a valuable Kushite resource. They Egyptian word for gold was this, indirectly giving the Kushites another name.
What is nub?
300
In the 670s BCE, Egypt was invaded by this Mesopotamian people that forced the Kushites out.
Who are the Assyrians?
300
In order to hold water back on the banks of the rivers, these mounds made out of earth helped to prevent flooding...not dams.
What are levees?
400
This body of water separates Egypt from the Arabian peninsula.
What is the Red Sea?
400
The Kushites got the idea of improving their weapons and using a new metal because of the invasion of these people, that had used it many years earlier.
Who are the Assyrians?
400
While being ruled by Egypt, the Kushites were forced to pay the Egyptians in these types of gifts to avoid violence.
What is tribute?
400
The Kushites built many grand temples, even pyramids during their reign of Egypt. Most notably, this temple modeled after Ramses II's Abu Simbel.
What is Jebel Barkal?
400
Along with the Euphrates, this river helped bring life to the land of Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris River?
500
Many of the animals of Africa inspired Egypt's gods and goddesses. Ammit the devourer god was said to eat the heart and soul of the condemned. Ammit is said to have the bottom of a hippo, the middle of a leopard, and the head of this creature.
What is a crocodile?
500
Being an industrial and trade center, Meroe traded with places from far and wide including Arabia, Rome, India, and even this place in eastern Asia.
What is China?
500
The Kushites were forced to surrender these men, their most valuable warriors to fight in Egypt's army.
What are archers?
500
During its rule of Egypt, Kush's power stretched from its capital city of Meroe on the southern Nile, all the way north to this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
500
Before Mesopotamians moved to the plains between the rivers, they first lived in the foothills of this mountain range where they were forced out by a food shortage.