Nile River
Pharaohs
Kingdoms
Five Themes
Odd and Ends
100
They helped protect Egypt from invasions.
What are cataracts?
100
The Egyptian word for "great house".
What is pharaoh?
100
The kingdom when the pyramids of Giza were built.
What is the Old Kingdom?
100
IPads in Guatemala.
What is movement?
100
This made it possible to translate hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
200
Rich deposits of soil left by the flooding Nile River.
What is silt?
200
His tomb was the first pharaoh's tomb to be found by archaeologists unopened.
What is King Tutenkhamen?
200
As this kingdom weakened Kush regained its independence.
What is the New Kingdom?
200
The countries of North Africa.
What is region?
200
When people began farming and domesticating animals.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
300
They are used to fill the basins when the Nile is not flooding.
What are shadoofs?
300
This pharaoh regained lands lost in western Asia, expanded the empire and undertook major building projects.
Who is Ramses II?
300
This kingdom came after Upper and Lower Egypt were united.
What is the Old Kingdom?
300
Its relative location is west of the Red Sea, east of the Western (Sahara) Desert, and south of the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Egypt?
300
These two rivers are found in the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
400
This part of Ancient Egypt got its name because the elevation was higher.
What is Upper Egypt?
400
Pharaohs were believed to be this god on earth.
Who is Horus?
400
This kingdom had lands in on the Arabian Penninsula and on islands in the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the New Kingdom?
400
An irrigation system is an example of this theme.
What is human/environmental interaction?
400
Any tools that are useful to humans, no matter how simple or complex.
What is technology?
500
The fan like river feature formed at the mouth of the Nile.
What is a delta?
500
This pharaoh expanded Egypt's influence and economy through trade and peaceful diplomacy.
Who is Hatshepsut?
500
Unfortunately this kingdom did not have iron or bronze.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
500
The people of Egypt speak Arabic, there are ancient monuments, and all towns and cities are along the Nile River.
What is place?
500
The term for a specialized worker who makes items crafted by hand.
What is an artisan?
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