The Nile River
This long river flows north through Egypt and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile?
Egyptians believed in this, the idea that life keeps going after death. That is why they filled tombs with treasures.
What is the afterlife
This ruler of Egypt was seen as connected to the gods.
Who is the pharaoh
This picture-and-symbol writing system was used in Egypt, and Kush borrowed it too.
What are hieroglyphs?
This kingdom was located south of Egypt along the Nile River.
What is Kush?
Every year the Nile flooded and left behind this rich, dark soil, which made farming possible in the desert.
What is silt?
This huge stone tomb was built for a pharaoh.
What is a pyramid
Besides ruling Egypt, the pharaoh led this group in war and served as a religious leader.
What is the army
This shape describes how Egyptian society was organized: a few powerful people at the top and many workers at the bottom.
What is the social pyramid?
Kush grew rich by trading these two valuable goods with Egypt.
What are gold and ivory?
Egyptian farmers dug these canals to carry river water to fields far away from the Nile.
What is irrigation?
Preserving a body so it could be used in the afterlife is called this.
What is mummification
Pharaohs showed their power by ordering huge building projects, like pyramids and these places of worship for the gods.
What are temples
Most Egyptians were these workers near the bottom of the social pyramid, growing crops in the Nile's rich silt.
Who are farmers
Egypt and Kush both lived along the Nile and both built these huge stone tombs.
What are pyramids
Boats could not easily pass these rocky, fast-moving stretches of water in the Nile.
What are cataracts?
Egyptians made mummies because they believed a person would still need this in the afterlife.
What is a body?
Egypt's history is split into the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms. This one was Egypt's most powerful time.
What is the New Kingdom?
A farmer's son who wanted to move up in status had one real chance: train for this job.
What is a scribe?
Kush worshiped this Egyptian god, which shows the two kingdoms shared beliefs.
Who is Amun?
The Nile gave Egyptians water and silt, but also this reed plant, which they used to make an early kind of paper.
What is papyrus?
People once thought slaves built the Great Pyramid. Historians now know it was built by these workers instead.
Who are Egyptian workers?
Scribes kept records of the grain farmers grew and these payments that people owed to the government.
What are taxes
A tool, jar, or piece of jewelry made by people long ago, often found in a tomb, is called this.
What is an artifact?
Most of ancient Kush lies in this modern country, which today has more pyramids than Egypt
What is Sudan