Geography
Unifying Egypt
The Old Kingdom
The Middle and New Kingdoms
Egyptian Achievements
100
The name of the major river that runs through Egypt.
What is the Nile?
100
The names of the two regions in Egypt before unification.
What are Upper and Lower Egypt?
100
Egyptians believed that the Pharaoh was also this.
What is a God?
100
A period of time that started after a Pharaoh defeated his rival nobles and united Egypt once again.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
100
Along with Cuneiform, this was also one of the world's first forms of writing.
What is hieroglyphics?
200
The names of the two deserts that protected Egypt.
What are the Eastern and Western Deserts?
200
This King was believed to have unified Egypt and to have been Egypt's first Pharaoh.
Who is Menes?
200
People from the upper class, like priests and key government officials.
What are nobles?
200
The people that took over Egypt and caused the Middle Kingdom to fall.
Who are the Hyksos?
200
Instead of writing on clay tablets, Egyptians wrote on this.
What is papyrus?
300
An area of fertile, flat land where the Nile empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile Delta?
300
A series of rulers from the same family?
What is a dynasty?
300
Around 80% of the people in Egypt. They worked as servants, slaves and farmers.
What is te lower class?
300
The paths followed by traders that allowed Egyptians in the New Kingdom to come into contact with other resources such as timber, copper, and gold.
What are trade routes?
300
Large buildings that were homes to the gods, had HIGH CEILINGS, and contained beautiful artwork. Hint: they are not tombs.
What are temples?
400
The rapids created by rough terrain that could have stopped many invaders from attacking Egypt.
What are the cataracts on the Nile?
400
The first Pharaohs of Egypt wore this to signify that they united Upper and Lower Egypt.
What is a double crown?
400
The belief in many gods, such as the Amon-Re, the sun god, and Geb, the earth god.
What is polytheism?
400
This person expanded trade, built many temples and monuments, and wanted to prove that she can rule as good, or even better, than a man.
Who is Queen Hatshepsut? Or Quing Hatshepsut (per Alex Kurtz)
400
The three different forms of writing found on the Rosetta Stone.
What are Greek, Hieroglyphs , and an older form of Egyptian.
500
This caused rich silt to deposit along the banks of the Nile and created a fertile farmland where crops such as wheat, barley, fruits, and vegetables.
What is the flooding of the Nile?
500
From the Old Kingdom- The belief that after a person died, his/her ka, or life force, would leave the person's body but still have needs.
What is the afterlife?
500
The name given to human bodies after they are embalmed for preservation.
What are mummies?
500
Three groups of people that continuosly battled paharaohs like Ramses the Great, and eventually weakend Egypt, until it was no longer a great empire.
Who are the Hittites, the Tehenu, and the Sea People?
500
A pharaoh whose undisturbed tomb and remains were found in 1922.
Who is King Tutankhamen?
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