5.1 - Gift of the Nile
5.2 - Life in Ancient Egypt
5.3 - The Pyramid Builders
5.4 - The New Kingdom
6.1 - Nubia and the land of Kush
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What is a cataract?
waterfall
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What is a scribe?
a person who wrote to keep records
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What is a pharaoh?
Ruler of Egypt
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Who was Hatshepsut?
The first women pharaoh of Egypt
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What geographic feature connected Egypt and Nubia?
the Nile River
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What is a delta?
an area near the river's mouth where silt is deposited
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What did the Egyptians believe in?
an afterlife
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What is a dynasty?
the lines of rulers from the same family
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What is an obleisk?
a four sided shaft with a pyramid shaped top
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What kingdom controlled Nubia when Egypt stopped?
Kush kingdom
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What is the difference between the black land and red land?
The black land is the fertile land where people live. The red land is the desert.
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What writing did the Egyptians invent?
Hieroglyphs
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What is the succession?
The order in which members of a royal family inherit the throne
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How did Akhenaton change the art in Egypt?
made it more realistic, carvings of him showed his large stomach
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Who was the Kushite king that attacked the city of Memphis and become an Egyptian pharoah?
Piankhi
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What is a shaduf?
tool used to spread water on the land
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What is embalm mean?
It means to preserve a dead body
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What is a step pyramid?
A pyramid with big steps
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Who held the longest reign in Egypt?
Ramses II
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What is the heating of material for Earth's crust to separate the elements is contains?
smelting
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How did they build their houses to keep cool in the desert?
Painted the houses white, had high windows, etc
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What is a mummy?
A body that has been dried and wrapped so that it won't decay
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What did grave robbers do?
broke into tombs and stole the riches
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How di Akhenaton change the way the Egyptians worshiped?
He replaced all gods with one god, Aton.
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What Kushite capital became an economic trade center?
Meroë
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