Nubia
Egyptian Deities and Worship
Landscape and Agriculture
Geography
Writing and Literature
100
This Nubian script was a phonetic alphabet adapted from Egyptian hieroglyphs.
What is Meroitic writing?
100
This cult advocated high moral standards and promised salvation for those who adhered to it.
What is the Cult of Osiris?
100
This Nile River-bordering location was home to the Egyptian territory.
What are floodplains?
100
This area was a grassy steppe land with numerous lakes, rivers, and streams about 10,000 B.C.E.
What is the Sahara desert?
100
This form of Egyptian writing was taken from the Greek words meaning “holy inscriptions.”
What are hieroglyphs?
200
This Nubian King conquered Thebes in 760 B.C.E. and founded a Kushite dynasty.
Who is Kashta?
200
This god was associated with the sun and was worshipped at Heliopolis.
Who is Re?
200
This climatic change occurred in Africa post-5000 B.C.E.
What is desertification?
200
This lake is also known as the source of the Nile River.
What is Lake Victoria?
200
This script was developed with the adaptation of Greek to the Egyption language and was known as “Egyptian” script.
What is Coptic script?
300
This Nubian deity was a creator god and served as a divine guardian for the kingdom of Kush.
Who is Sebiumeker?
300
This god was associated with the sun, and was proposed to be the single and true god.
Who is Aten?
300
This crop was first cultivated by the newly-settled Sudanic nomads.
What is Sorghum?
300
Egyptians traded through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden with this east African land.
What is Punt?
300
This script was developed with the adaptation of Greek to the Egyption language and was known as “popular” script.
What is demotic script?
400
This Nubian deity was a lion-god and served as a war god for the kingdom of Kush.
Who is Apedemak?
400
This god was associated with the sun and was worshipped at Heliopolis.
Who is Re?
400
These structures were built by Egyptians in an effort to protect their fields from flooding.
What are dikes?
400
This region proved to be a primary exporter of wood to Egypt.
What is Lebanon?
400
This form of writing was a simplified form of hieroglyphs used for everyday functions.
What is hieratic script?
500
This Nubian realm flourished from about 3400 to 3200 B.C.E. and extended its rule into north Egypt.
What is Ta-Seti?
500
This new capital city meaning “Horizon of Aten” was built by Akhenaten in honor of Aten.
What is Akhetaten?
500
These structures were built by Egyptians in an effort to store water for irrigation.
What are catchment basins?
500
his region of Africa contains Burundi and Rwanda as well as the southern side of Lake Chad and is regarded as the origin of iron production in Africa.
What is the Great Lakes region?
500
This short literary work, written during the Middle Kingdom, advocated literacy and education as well as the profession of scribes.
What is “The Satire of the Trades?”
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