Settling the Nile
The River People
A United Egypt
Early Egyptian Life
Egypt's Old Kingdom
100
Farming, bathing, fishing, cooking, and drinking took place along this river in Egypt.
What is the Nile?
100
The Nile floods every year during these months.
What are July to October?
100
These two kingdoms were united to form Egypt.
What are Upper and Lower Egypt?
100
The top level of Egyptian society included this ruler.
Who is the pharaoh?
100
This is the name of the process used to prepared the dead.
What is embalming?
200
This body of water is 4,000 miles long.
What is the Nile?
200
Farmers built these in order to irrigate their crops.
What are canals and basins?
200
This king unified Egypt.
Who is King Narmer?
200
The second level of Egyptian society included these people.
Who were priests and nobles?
200
This is the god who meets the dead at the entrance to he next world.
Who is Osiris?
300
The narrow cliffs and boulders along the Nile create these.
What are cataracts?
300
Dark fertile silt or mud was left behind when the Nile did this.
What is recede?
300
King Narmer ruled from this city.
What is Memphis?
300
This level of Egyptian society included unskilled workers and physical laborers.
What is the bottom level?
300
The Egyptians believed that pharaohs were descended from this sun god.
Who is Re?
400
The soil on the Nile delta can be described in this way,
What is rich and fertile?
400
Early Egyptians developed this type of math to measure their land.
What is geometry?
400
Narmer wore a double crown to represent these.
What are the kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt?
400
These people who made up the fourth level of Egyptian society helped to make the pyramids when the Nile was flooded.
Who are farmers?
400
This substance was used to dry the bodies of the dead,
What is natron?
500
These served as protection from invaders.
What are deserts and the Nile?
500
This product was used to make sandals, baskets, rafts and later paper.
What is papayrus?
500
Ancient Egyptians learned about writing and government from their visits to this civilization.
What is Mesopotamia?
500
The third level of Egyptian society included traders, artisans, shopkeepers, and these people who wrote hieroglyphics.
Who are scribes?
500
The Great Pyramid is 500 feet tall, and was built in 2450 B.C. for this pharaoh.
Who was King Khufu?
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