The Nile
The Kingdoms of Egypt
Ancient Egyptian Culture
Nubia & Kush
Miscellaneous
100
The region of Egypt in the north is known as this.
What is Lower Egypt?
100
The joining of two separate kingdoms.
What is unification?
100
A journey undertaken for a specific purpose.
What is an expedition?
100
This branch of the Nile flowed northeast from the Ethiopian Highlands.
What is the Blue Nile?
100
These were large stone structures used as tombs for the Pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
200
This is where the Nile branches off in many directions to form a fan-shaped area of fertile land.
What is a delta?
200
The capital city of Egypt.
What is Memphis?
200
This "modern" science was used by the Egyptians to design the pyramids.
What is mathematics?
200
This branch of the Nile flowed due north from Lake Victoria.
What is the White Nile?
200
The way a country manages its money.
What is an economy?
300
The southern part of Egypt that is "upstream" from the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Upper Egypt?
300
The process of preserving the bodies of the dead.
What is mummification?
300
The Hyksos were able to conquer Lower Egypt because of their advanced _____________.
What is technology?
300
These are a series of steep rapids in a river.
What are cataracts?
300
This is a triangle-shaped diagram of social structure.
What is a social pyramid?
400
What the river brings to Egypt with annual flooding.
What is silt (or minerals)?
400
This is the Egyptian writing system.
What is hieroglyphics?
400
This was used to crack the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
400
This was Nubia's most precious natural resource.
What is gold?
400
She became the first female ruler the world had ever known after her husband (the Pharaoh) died.
Who is Hatshepsut?
500
This is used to carry water from the canals to the fields.
What is a shadoof?
500
This reed grew along the Nile and was turned into paper.
What is papyrus?
500
This was the wealthy kingdom to the south of Lower Egypt.
What is Nubia?
500
The king of Kush who invaded and conquered Egypt.
Who is Piye?
500
The capital of Kush.
What is Meroe?
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