Geography
In addition to the Nile River, the Ancient Egyptian empire reached what two major bodies of water?
What are Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea?
This ancient civilization began before 3000 BCE and lasted over almost 3000 years.
What is Egypt?
These large buildings were constructed in both Ancient Egypt and in the Kush Kingdom to contain tombs of dead rulers.
What are pyramids?
This king drove the Hyksos out of Egypt.
Who was Ahmose?
This word describes the process that Ancient Egyptians used to embalm a dead body to prepare it for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
This large group of people in ancient Egypt had more rights there than in other ancient civilizations. In ancient Egypt, these people could own property, buy and sell goods, make wills and obtain divorces. Some tended temples and performed religious ceremonies. Some of them even were priests and pharaohs.
Who were women?
The Kingdom of Kush traded and sometimes fought with its neighboring kingdom to the north. This neighboring kingdom controlled Kush for about 700 years, and that then was controlled by Kush for about 200 years?
What is Egypt?
This word describes sections of the Nile River where dangerous rapids are caused by rocks, curves, and cliffs along the river.
What are cataracts?
Historians divide ancient Egypt's history into three main periods: first from about 2600 to 2200 BCE, second from about 2055 to 1650 BCE, and third from about 1550 to 1070 BCE. Historians give these periods three simple names.
What are Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom?
The mummified body of an Egyptian ruler was buried in a tomb along with these other things to make the ruler more comfortable in his or her afterlife.
What are possessions?
(Also accept the answer of treasures or stuff)
What role did Osiris take after his resurrection, or return to life?
Who is lord of the afterworld?
Ancient Egypt's most important god was Re (a.k.a. Ra), who was god of this.
What is the sun?
This social class was made up of Ancient Egyptians who were traders, artisans, shopkeepers, and scribes.
What is the middle class?
Built by Kushite people for their dead rulers, these tombs were similar to Egyptian structures but were smaller and with steeper sides.
What are pyramids?
Egypt's first pharaoh was King Narmer. In about 3,100 BCE, Narmer unified Egypt after invading from his kingdom in Upper Egypt to conquer this neighboring region.
What is Lower Egypt?
This kingdom ended in about 350 CE when Axum invaded it and destroyed the capital city of Meroë.
What is the Kingdom of Kush?
During the Old Kingdom, the capital city was.
What is Memphis?
This leader united Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Narmer?
This word describes a government whose ruler is both the political leader and the religious leader.
What is theocracy?
This natural event was more predictable for Egyptians in the Nile River valley than it was for Mesopotamian civilizations along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is flooding?
Around 540 BCE, the rulers of Kush moved their capital south from Napata to this this city.
What is Meroë?
This word describes the landscape of grassy plains of Nubia, which was south of the Sahara Desert.
What is savanna?
Egypt's Middle Kingdom ended when it was conquered by this group of invaders.
Who were the Hyksos?
This word describes a period when the kingdom's rulers all come from the same family.
What is dynasty?
This king tried changing Egypt's religion from polytheism (worshipping many gods) to monotheism (worshipping just one god).
Who was Amenhotep IV
(Also accept the name Akhenaton)
Ancient Egyptians believed that these two gods were husband and wife, and that they ruled together over Land of the Dead.
Who were Osiris and Isis?
This word means woven fabric or cloth.
What is textiles (or textile)?
This kingdom's forces invaded Kush from eastern Africa along the Red Sea and destroyed the city of Meroë around 350 CE, ending the Kush empire.
What is Axum?
The Nile River's flooding could be described as.
What is gentle and predictable?
Around 1550 BCE this prince led an army to drive out the Hyksos invaders. He regained control of Egypt and became the first king of a new dynasty that started the New Kingdom.
Who was Ahmose?
These two Kushite kings were father and son, and they were the first to conquer Egypt and rule both Kush and Egypt around 750 BCE. They were the first of the "Black Pharaohs" of Egypt.
Who were Kashta and Piye?
Hatshepsut's father, half-brother (and husband), and stepson all were kings that had this same name.
What is Thutmose?
What is the name of Ancient Egypt's river god?
What is Hapi?
This substance was a valuable product for trading in Ancient Egypt. It was made of plant material that is burned to produce a pleasant smell.
What is incense?
The Kush capital city of Meroë had many furnaces that produced huge columns of smoke and heaps of black "slag" waste from the production of this material.
What is iron?
At the beginning of Egypt's Middle Kingdom, pharaohs moved the capital from Memphis to this city further south.
What is Thebes?
Egyptian pharaohs first lost control of their empire to the "Black Pharaohs" who ruled from Kush, and then Egypt was conquered by this empire from Mesopotamia around 600 BCE.
What is Assyria
(also accept the answer Assyrian Empire or Assyrians)
In Egypt's Old Kingdom, dead pharaohs were buried in pyramids along the Nile River in Lower Egypt. By the New Kingdom, Egyptians were hiding their pharaohs' tombs deep inside rocky cliffs in this area further up the Nile River Valley.
What is Valley of the Kings?
Pharaohs and other rulers exchanged these government officials to maintain close ties.
What are envoys?
When King Amenhotep IV tried changing Egypt's religion from polytheism to monotheism, he required Egyptian people to worship this new god.
What was Aton.
The Kush city of Meroë had lots of smoke stacks because that city's main industry was producing this material.
What is iron?
This word means woven cloth made from cotton, wool, and other fabrics.
What are textiles?
This was Kush's capital city until about 540 BCE, when the capital was moved south to Meroë.
What is Napata?
This term describes "gaps" of time between the end of Egypt's Old Kingdom and beginning of its Middle Kingdom, and between the end of the Middle Kingdom and the beginning of its New Kingdom.
What are intermediary periods?
At the end of Egypt's New Kingdom, this ruler had the most statues and temples honoring him.
Who was Ramses II?
This engineer designed and built the first pyramids for Egyptian pharaohs.
Who was Imhotep?
This was the name of Ancient Egypt's god of learning.
What is Thoth?
In which social class did farmers belong, and what were their lives like?
What is the second lowest social class. They lived in simple one-room houses and had to pay rent to the wealthy nobles.
What is gold?