Didn't we do this last time?
They defeated the Assyrians and replaced them with their own empire
Who are the Chaldeans?
5,000 BC these people began to settle the Nile River Valley
What are Hunter-Gatherers?
A bucket on a long pole used to irrigate
What is a shadoof?
Triangular shaped lower Egypt full of mashes and swamps which is 2/3 of the fertile land in Egypt
What is the Delta?
Why Government developed
What is to oversee building projects, provide a military, and manage the food supply?
Meaning big house; head of the Egyptian theology
Who is pharaoh?
The embalmed wrapped body
What is a mummy?
They allied with the Chaldean against the Assyrians
Who are the Medes?
Kemet means
What is Black Land (Egypt)?
This plant was mashed, rolled, and dried to function as paper
What is Papyrus?
Natural barriers provided this which led to Egypt's isolation
What is protection?
By 4,000 BC there were this many kingdoms in Egypt
What is two (Upper & Lower)?
Government officials that carry out government orders and regulations
Who are bureaucrats?
Massive tombs
What are Pyramids?
Victorious Chaldean King who destroyed Nineveh?
Whao is Nabopolassar?
Gift of the Nile
What is Egypt?
Picture writing
What are Hieroglyphics?
How Egypt tamed its predictable and less destructive flooding
What is Irrigation?
Location of Narmer's capital
Where is Memphis?
Important writing about the afterlife
First engineer of pyramids
Who is Imhotep?
He built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
Waterfalls and rapids that divide the Nile
What are Cataracts?
Necessary to plan and execute large infrastructure and building projects
What is government?
How far South did Egyptian caravans travel?
Where is Nubia?
A series of rulers from the same blood line
What is a dynasty?
Method of preparing the body for burial
What is embalming?
Kufu's final resting place
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
This empire conquered the Chaldeans
What was the Persian Empire?
Red Land
What are the desserts bordering Egypt?
In 31000 BC was the first to unify Upper and Lower Egypt and establish dynasty 1
Who is Narmer?
Name 4 natural features that ensured Egypt a peaceful development
What are deserts, cataracts, The Mediterranean Sea, The Delta's marshes and swamps, The Red Sea?
The number of Egyptian dynasties
What is 30 dynasties?
God of learning
Who is Thoth?
The River God
Who is Hapi?
The Life Blood of Egypt
What is the Nile?
This Greek asked a priest why the Nile flooded so predictably
Who is Herodotus?
The Creator of all Good
What is the Nile?
Two adjectives for Nile floods
What are predictable and less destructive?
How the Egyptian dynasties are organized
What is into the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms?