Lesson 1
This river flooded every year, labeling it as a "gift" to the people who lived alongside it
Nile River
This term is the joining of separate parts into one
unification
A journey undertaken for a specific purpose
expedition
This is a series of steep rapids in a river
cataracts
The number of years Ramses II ruled
67 years
This country in Africa has been the focus of this lesson and chapter
Egypt
This was the system of ancient Egyptian writing
hieroglyphics
She was a famous pharaoh and is known for her burial temple
Hatshepsut
This is a triangle-shaped chart that shows the rank of people in its society
social pyramid
This term refers to the preservation of bodies of the dead
mummification
The Nile River flows north and stretches for this amount of miles
This term refers to the way a country manages its resources to produce goods and services
economy
This was the source of Nubia's wealth
gold
This group were at the bottom of the social pyramid
enslaved people
These stone structures in Egypt are tombs for pharaohs
pyramids
This is a fertile, flat land made of silt dropped by a river as it drains into a larger body of water
delta
This is a reed plant that was used for Egyptian scribes to write on
papyrus
Archaeologist Howard Carter discovered this pharaoh's tomb in November of 1922
King "Tut" Tutankhamun
This king of Kush invaded Egypt around 740BC
Piye
This French scholar discovered that hieroglyphics the Rosetta Stone was able to be decoded.
Jean Champollion
This is the name of the tool farmers used to lift water into their fields
shadoof
This was discovered and decoded hieroglyphics
Rosetta Stone
He was King Tut's dad and was extremely unpopular with his people
Akhenaton
These two rivers form the Nile River
Blue Nile and White Nile
If our class needed to pick a king like they did in Nubia (strength and size), who would be the king?
Micha