Key Terms
Strong rapids.
What is a cataracts?
Life after death.
What is the afterlife?
Egyptian Pharaoh whose tomb was discovered in 1922.
Who is King Tut?
What continent is Egypt located on?
What is Africa?
Why was the Nile Delta well suited for settlement?
Fertile area to grow crops, fish, hunt, and raise livestock.
Triangle shaped area of land made of soil deposited by a river.
What is delta?
Egyptian writing system.
What is hieroglyphics?
The most famous pharaoh from the Old Kingdom who is best known for the monuments that were built for him.
Who is Khufu?
The longest river in the world and it flows through Egypt.
What is the Nile?
Why was the pharaoh's authority never questioned?
The pharaoh was considered a god.
Imaginary creatures with bodies of lions and heads of other animals or humans.
What is sphinxes?
A tall four sided pillar that is pointed on the top.
What is an obelisk?
First pharaoh of Egypt.
Who is Menes?
What geographical feature makes up most of Egypt?
What is desert?
Which group of invaders did Ramses the Great defeat?
Who is the Hittites?
A period in Egyptian history that lasted from 2700 BC to 2200 BC.
What is a The Old Kingdom?
A stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics and Greek.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Pharaoh during the 1200's BC whose reign was one of the longest in Egyptian history and fought the Hittites.
Who is Ramses the Great?
What sea is north of Egypt?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Why was finding the Rosetta Stone so important to Scholars?
It lead to the translation of Hieroglyphics.
A period of stability and order that lasted until 1750 BC.
What is The Middle Kingdom?
The period during which Egypt reached the height of its power and glory.
What is the New Kingdom?
King of Aksum whose army destroyed Meroe and took over Kush.
Who is King Ezana?
Sea east of Egypt?
What is the Red Sea?
Kush developed along the ______ river.
What is the Nile?