The Nile River
Vocabulary
Dynasties
Nubia and Kush
Grab Bag
100
The Nile River did this ever year, providing fresh, fertile soil for growing crops. 
What is flood?
100
What is the name the Egyptians used for gods?
What is a deity?
100
This important invention was developed in the early period, leading to an improvement in communication.
What is papyrus?
100
Nubia had strong trade routes with this region.
What is Africa?
100
This is the what papyrus was used for.
What is writing on, or paper?
200
This was the name for the time of flooding by the Nile River.
What is Inundation?
200
In the Middle Kingdom, this person helped carry out the king's orders.
Who is the vizier?
200
This was the kingdom in which Egypt became the world's strongest power.
What is  the New Kingdom?
200
Nubia had rocks and mineral that they used to build these tall monuments with straight sides and pointed tops. 
What are obelisks?
200
What body part did the Egyptian embalmers throw away?
What is the brain?
300
This was the time of year that the farmers could plant as the flood waters went away.
What is Emergence?
300
This is the name for a series of rulers belonging to the same family.
What is a dynasty?
300
This is kingdom is known as the Age of Pyramids.
What is The Old Kingdom?
300
This was the reason Egypt wanted to annex Nubia.
What is to control their trade routes with Africa?
300
This was what went into canopic jars.
What is the intestines, the liver, the lungs, and the stomach?
400
This was the invention that Egyptians used to move water from the Nile River to their farm fields. 
What is the shaduf, or irrigation?
400
This is the name for the Egyptian writing system.
What are hieroglyphics?
400
King Mentuhotep II annexed Nubia during this kingdom.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
400
This was the settlement the Nubians founded when they fled south after Egypt annexed their land.
What is Kush?
400
This is the god of the sun.
Who was Ra or Re?
500
The Nile river provided a way to unify Upper and Lower Egypt, leading to this.
What is the first nation-state?
500
This name means "big house."
What is pharaoh?
500
This is kingdom that the name pharaoh first started being used. 
What is the New Kingdom?
500
This is what led to Egypt being conquered by  Kushite Kings.
What are weak dynasties?
500
This is why Egyptians preserved their dead as mummies.
What is to live in the afterlife?
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