Geography
Technology
Religion
Vocabulary
The Empire
100
Runs through Eastern Africa north to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile River?
100
This was a system used by farmers to get water from the Nile and helped build an empire
What is irrigation?
100
The pharaoh had to take many special things into the afterlife and they had to fit inside this
What is a tomb?
100
This tool was used to fetch water from the Nile
What is a shadoof?
100
Led by the pharaoh Ahmose they drove out these people to regain the control of the delta
Who is the Hyskos?
200
These were sometimes used as city boundaries along the Nile River and are sometimes referred to as rapids.
What are cataracts?
200
This tool was used during the planting season and was used with a domesticated animal
What is a plow?
200
The pharaoh is believed to be a direct descendant of this god
Who was Ra?
200
the bringing together of two
What is unification?
200
The merchant who sold goods at the market had to pay taxes to
Who is the pharaoh?
300
This land is made up of stone cliffs and desert sands.
What is Upper Egypt?
300
This type of writing was created before the unification of Egypt and was used to record the life of the pharaohs.
What is hieroglyphics?
300
This god was in control of the afterlife
Who is Osiris?
300
a mixture of tiny bits of soil and rock
What is silt?
300
The base is the poor and the tip is the rich
What is the social pyramid?
400
This allowed for fertile grounds and a season to grow plants
What are floods?
400
These were used to transport goods or people along the Nile
What are boats?
400
This is the belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
400
this reed plant grew all over the Nile and was used for rope and other goods
What is papyrus?
400
This territory became part of Egypt and they provided the empire with reserves of gold
What is Nubia?
500
This is the largest fertile area along the Nile
What is the delta?
500
This tool could be used when surveying the land before building canals
What is a scale?
500
The pyramid served as the resting place for the pharaoh but this religious valley became the resting place for many pharaohs
What is the Valley of the Kings?
500
groups of lands and peoples ruled by the Egyptian government
What is an empire?
500
This pharaoh tried to change traditional ways of the empire
Who is Akhenaten?
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