Geography
What is 1 way Egypt's geography impacted their civilization?
Choose from:
Nile provided fresh water,
desert made it difficult to travel/trade, protected them from intruders
Delta - great farmland, natural barrier from sailing intruders.
What type of information was recorded by Hieroglyphics?
Achievements, trading, religion
What is an economy?
the wealth and resources of a country or region
What were the two most traded resources?
Gold and Salt
Who was Osiris?
The first mummy/ God of the underworld
List two types of landforms that would be found in Egypt.
Choose from: Desert, cataract, river, marshy delta
What was the importance of the Rosetta Stone?
It helped unlock the code to reading hieroglyphics so we can learn about Egypt.
How did the Ghana Empire get their wealth?
Taxes
What is the term for a person who trades goods
Merchant
What was the collection of religious spells which were thought to be helpful to the deceased in the afterlife.
Book of the Dead
Where did most of the farming take place in ancient Egypt? Why?
In the delta; it was really fertile from all of the silt.
List 2 engineering and building achievements of the ancient Egyptians.
pyramid building, geometry - used to build the pyramids
What was Egypt's greatest resource?
Papyrus
Name a major trading city in Africa
Ghana
Siljilmasa
Timbuktu
Why was the heart not removed during mummification?
Weighing of the heart ceremony
Why were irrigation systems needed?
So they could farm a larger area of land
What is a medical achievements of the ancient Egyptians.
embalming/mummification
Why was gold traded for salt?
Salt was the most valuable resource in Africa. It was required for survival
What was the name of the person sent ahead of the caravan to warm the city of their arrival?
Takshif
From top to bottom, what is the correct order of the social structure of ancient Egypt?
priests
scribes
merchants
farmers
pharaoh
pharaoh, priests, scribes, merchants, farmers
Explain why the Nile River can be described as predictable.
The flooding followed the rainy season, so Egyptians knew when to plant and harvest their crops without damaging flood waters destroying their crops.
What is the most important mathematical achievement of the ancient Egyptians
12 month, 365 day calendar
What type of economy existed in ancient Egypt? What was their economy based on?
Trade and farming
What era was brought in by the prosperous trade routes
Golden Age of Africa
Why was Upper Egypt located in the South?
Upper and Lower Egypt correspond with the flow of the Nile.