Geography
This river flows from south to north and empties into a delta in Lower Egypt.
What is the Nile?
This method of diverting the flow of rivers into basins or canals to be used for farming.
What is irrigation?
He married a princess and was able to unite Lower and Upper Egypt for the first time.
Who is Narmer or Menes?
This king fought against the Hyksos and brought about the New Kingdom in 1550 BC?
Who is King Ahmose?
In 1922, this man discovered the tomb of King Tut in the Valley of the Kings.
Who is Howard Carter?
Egypt is located on this continent.
What is Africa?
This giant wheel contained buckets that scooped water from the Nile River into canals or basins.
What is a shaduf?
The great pyramids were built during this kingdom.
What is the Old Kingdom?
Trade flourished under the leadership of this female pharaoh in 1470 BC.
Who is Hatshepsut?
This was the position held by the man who became pharaoh after King Tut's death. He became pharaoh by marrying into the royal family.
What is the chief minister?
These rock formations in Egypt's longest river create rapids and make travel difficult.
What are cataracts?
This process was used to prepare and preserve a body for burial by removing its organs and treating it with salt.
What is embalming?
This is the name of the pyramid that was built by Khufu in Giza.
What is the Great Pyramid?
This pharaoh was too young to rule when he became pharaoh, so his stepmother took control of Egypt.
Who is Thutmose III?
Two tiny coffins were found in his tomb and were identified to be these descendants.
Who were his daughters?
These tributaries form a fan shape when they enter into the Mediterranean Sea from the Nile River.
What is a delta?
These structures were built to house the dead bodies of pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
Mentuhotep II reunited this kingdom after years of wars and chaos in 2040 BC.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
Amenhotep IV was unpopular with the Egyptian people when he tried to change this belief of believing in many gods.
What is polytheism?
This is the location where King Tut's tomb was found in Upper Egypt.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
This civilization was south of Egypt and was rich in gold.
What is Kush?
These structures were attached to horses and used by the Hyksos and King Ahmose in battle.
What are chariots?
These people invaded Egypt in 1650 BC and ruled for around 100 years.
Who are the Hyksos?
This pharaoh reversed the policies of his father and restored polytheism to Egypt.
Who is King Tut or Tutankhamen?
This is the name of the god that Tut's father directed all of Egypt to believe in.
Who is Aten or Aton?