Geography
Old Kingdom
Middle Kingdom
New Kingdom
Vocabulary
100
The Nile River flows in this direction.
What is north?
100
This king created the first nation-state in 3100 B.C.
Who was Narmer?
100
Trade caravans traveled across this slowly and suffered from sandstorms and robbers.
What is the desert (or land)?
100
Group of people just below the pharaoh on the social pyramid.
What were the royal family, priests, and nobles?
100
This process took 70 days in order to preserve a dead body.
What was mummification?
200
Egypt is on this continent.
What is Africa?
200
A series of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
200
Reunited Egypt during the Middle Kingdom advanced in these areas (name at least 2).
What are art, literature, and building projects?
200
This pharaoh was buried in a golden coffin with many treasures.
Who was Tutankhamen?
200
These rocky rapids in the Nile are found in Upper Egypt and Nubia.
What are cataracts?
300
The Nile Delta is in this section of Northern Egypt.
What is Lower Egypt?
300
This king constructed the Great Pyramid.
Who was Khufu?
300
Trade across this was faster, but traders fought strong winds and pirates.
What is the sea (or water)?
300
Worshipping only Aton was what this pharaoh demanded of his people.
Who was Akhenaton?
300
After this was found, hieroglyphics were eventually decoded.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
400
The Nile River flows into this larger body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
He built two pyramids and the Sphinx.
Who was Khafre?
400
Reason Ancient Egyptians traded with other regions.
What was to gain the resources that they lacked?
400
During their reign Egypt's empire grew to its largest and was a time of building large temples to the gods.
Who were Hatshepsut and Thutmose III?
400
Ancient Egyptians suffered from food shortages also called this.
What is famine?
500
Hashepsut sent a trading expedition to Punt via this sea.
What is the Red Sea?
500
Drought, famine, and this fighting occurred at the end of the Old Kingdom.
What was civil war?
500
The Hyksos conquered this region and ended the time of the Middle Kingdom.
What was Lower Egypt?
500
This pharaoh had the second longest reign in Egypt and ruled for 65 years.
Who was Ramses II?
500
Most Ancient Egyptians lived in these agricultural areas outside cities.
What were rural areas?
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