Geography
Pharaohs
Religion
Achievements
Miscellaneous
100
Flooding of the Nile is called this
What is the innundation?
100
He united Upper and Lower Egypt
Who was Menes?
100
Type of religion practiced by the Egyptians
What is polytheism?
100
This plant was used to make Egyptian paper
What is papyrus?
100
This discovery proved to be the code to decipher lost hieroglyphs
What is the Rosetta Stone?
200
Triangular shaped, fertile area at the mouth of a river
What is a delta?
200
He built Abu Simbel and was a military genius who fought the Hittites.
Who was Rammesses II?
200
Educated by priests
Who were scribes?
200
This device lifted water from the Nile and irrigation canals
What is a shaduf?
200
This discovery in the 1920's taught us about life in ancient Egypt
What is King Tut's tomb?
300
The Nile flows in this direction
What is South to North?
300
Hatshepsut increased Egypt's wealth by doing this
What are trade expeditions down the Red Sea to Punt?
300
This practice prepared a body for the afterlife
What is mummification?
300
This allowed farmers to move fields farther from the river
What is irrigation?
300
Egyptians used this application to help build temples and measure fields
What is math?
400
There are six of these on the Nile
What are cataracts?
400
He forced monotheism on the people of Egypt
Who was Akhenaten?
400
This helped the dead arrive safely to their afterlife
What is The Book of the Dead?
400
This Vizier and his Pharaoh designed and had built the Step Pyramid
Who were Imhotep and Djoser?
400
This caused the failure of Egypt
What was scarcity of grain - unrest - civil war - conquered by Libya, then Nubia, then Assyria, then Persia, then Alexander the Great, then the Ptolemy's of Greece and finally Rome
500
5 ways rivers help people
What are annual flooding fertilizes the land; water for people, plants and animals; natural resources such as papyrus and clay, food in the form of fish and fowl, and finally transportation and trade routes
500
What the three positions of government were and their duties
Who were the pharaohs (absolute ruler); the vizier (adviser to pharaoh) and the nomarchs (governors of nomes or districts)
500
These were built as tombs for Pharaoh
What are pyramids?
500
These were erected by Hatshepsut to show Eygpt her worthiness to rule
What are obelisks?
500
Why empires rise and fall
What are ambitious and strong rulers, unification, strong economy build empires while weak/corrupt rulers result in civil war, or empires become too big to control or natural disasters occur which destroy land, kill people and ruin the economy leaving it open to invasion and take over by another STRONG leader
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