Names and Places
Egyptians settled along this river in the northeast corner of Africa.
What is the Nile?
The three main environmental factors that influence where people chose to settle in ancient times.
What is water, topography, and vegetation?
Khufu is responsible for this wonder of the ancient world.
What is the Great Pyramid at Giza?
This pharaoh had more than 100 wives and most definitely had well over 100 children!
Who is Ramses the Great (Ramses II)?
The large body of water where the Nile river ends.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Just like Egypt and Kush, the Canaanites settled along this source of freshwater.
What is the Jordan River?
Two examples of topographic features.
What are mountains, hills, plains, deserts?
Made of hard, white stone and at one point most likely gilded in a thin layer of gold, was a fabulous architectural achievement.
What is White Chapel?
Often credited as Egypt's first female pharaoh but many historians will say otherwise.
Who is Hatshepsut?
This terms can be confusing when looking at a map and are used to show that Egypt was not always united under one rule.
What is upper and lower Egypt?
Two seas of ancient Canaan.
What is the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee?
Three reasons this liquid is essential for settlement.
What is water for bathing and drinking?
What is water as a food source?
What is water for transportation and trade?
These tall, thin, stone monuments were left behind by Hatshepsut and bordered the entrance of many temples.
What are obelisks?
Craftspeople thrived under this pharaoh's rule because fancy gems and jewelry were the most decorative and fancy.
Who is Senusret I?
Youngest Pharaoh ever at what age!?!
Who is Pepy II?
This moon shaped area is known as the cradle of life and the world's earliest civilizations.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Ancient Egyptians are credited with this very useful and lightweight invention thanks to this very versatile plant?
What is paper and papyrus?
Hundreds of statues erected of himself, many of them over 60 feet tall.
Who is Ramses the Great (Ramses II)?
Not know for much of anything at all, other than we found all that treasure.
Who is Tutankhamen (King Tut)?
The most popular drink of ancient Egypt.
What is beer?
This magnificent place and one of ancient Egypt's most impressive projects is carved into the side of a cliff overlooking the Nile River. It also includes a smaller temple for Nefertari.
What is the temple complex Abu Simbel?
These three natural barriers helped protect the civilizations of Egypt and Kush from invaders for thousands of years.
What are the Libyan, Arabian, and Nubian deserts?
The key that unlocked the secrets of ancient Egypt and gave us the ability to understanding anything at all about ancient Egyptian history and culture.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
The trade expedition pharaoh Hatshepsut is best known for. What expedition, how many ships, and how many men?
What is the expedition to Punt, where Hatshepsut sent 5 ships and 200 men on the voyage?
The three 'kingdoms' of ancient Egypt and their nicknames.
What is the New Kingdom, known as the Age of Pyramids?
What is the Middle Kingdom, known as the Age of Reunification?
What is the Old Kingdom, known as the Golden Age?