The Nile
Religion
Pharaohs
Misc.
Vocabulary!
100
What are the 2 main sources of the Nile River?
The Blue Nile and the White Nile
100
What was the preservation of the dead called?
Mummification
100
Who did the Egyptian pharaohs rule over with absolute power?
All Egyptians
100
What was the government like toward the end of the Old Kingdom?
Weak and Divided
100
A strong flood or a rush of water is called what?
a cataract
200
How did the Egyptians take advantage of the Nile's yearly spring flooding?
They became successful farmers
200
What was the falcon god's name?
Horus
200
In ancient Egypt, most of the people belonged to this social class.
peasants
200
Where was Nubia located that made it the center of trade?
Between Egypt and Central Africa
200
Someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule.
Regent
300
What was the area of land near the Nile River called?
Black land
300
What were the largest and most famous tombs called?
pyramids
300
This ruler avoided military conquests and expanded Egypt's economy with successful trade.
Hatshepsut
300
How did Queen Cleopatra VII die?
She committed suicide to avoid humiliation.
300
A scientist who studies the stars and other objects in the sky.
Astronomer
400
What was discovered near the Nile River that helped unlock secrets of Ancient Egypt?
The Rosetta Stone
400
How did the ancient Egyptians demonstrate their belief in life after death?
They preserved the bodies of the dead
400
What was the greatest achievement of Taharka?
Being crowned King of both Nubia and Egypt.
400
Ancient Egyptians used hieroglyphs to help keep track of this.
Growing wealth
400
A plain at the mouth of the river
Delta
500
Why doesn't the Nile River still flood?
The Aswan Dam was built in the 1960's.
500
The ancient Egyptian civilization was the first to have specialists in the field of ______________.
medicine
500
This Pharaoh was an educated man who studied plants and also a famous conquerer.
Thutmose III
500
The lives of the Egyptian peasants were greatly influenced by this.
The planting seasons
500
Egyptians used reeds to amke an early form of paper called ___________
Papyrus
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