The part of Nubia that is lowest in elevation and closest to Egypt.
What is Lower Nubia?
100
The study of Earth and its landforms - and the processes that shape them.
What is geography?
100
He died probably from a broken leg, malaria and an infected tooth.
Who was King Tut?
100
The world's longest river.
What is the Nile?
100
Menes
Who was the pharaoh who unified upper and lower Egypt?
200
When people dig ditches running from a river and make small canals through which water flows to their crops.
What is irrigation?
200
The measurement of how high or low places are.
What is elevation?
200
The female pharaoh who used her brains instead of her fists to expand Egypt's lands - through trade rather than fighting. She also served as regent for her nephew and then claimed the throne for herself.
Who was Hatshepsut?
200
The length of the Nile in miles?
What is 4,160 miles long and flows north?
200
Khufu
Who was the pharaoh who had the Great Pyramid as his tomb?
300
The part of Nubia that has the highest elevation and is closest to Ethiopia.
What is Upper Nubia?
300
When you run out of peanut butter (LOL) or...
when rocks and soil disintegrate by constant water flow.
What is erosion?
300
He built the Sphinx to guard his grave and the other
pharaoh's pyramids in Giza.
Who was Kafre?
300
The Nubians formed these communities along the Nile
around the year 5,000 BC. (Hint: the land along the Nile
is very skinny in Nubia.)
What are hunting and fishing communities?
300
It became weak and divided.
What is the reason the Old King faltered?
400
The science of farming, including cultivating the soil for the growing of crops and domesticating animals to provide food and products.
What is agriculture?
400
The process of cutting down many, many trees until a forest is almost a flat surface.
What is deforestation?
400
The only monotheistic pharaoh and also King Tut's father.
Who was Akhenaton?
400
The star that astronomers watched for to predict when the
Nile would flood.
What is Sirius (the dog star)?
400
Meroe became rich.
What happened when the Nubians created iron weapons from the iron ore found in the area?
500
The black fertile land along the Nile.
What is kemet?
500
In some parts of the world, once a forest is cleared, the land dries up and a desert forms where there was once a forest. (The reason the Nubian kingdom came to an end.)
What is desertification?
500
One of Egypt's greatest pharaohs. He built many public works for Egypt, encouraged trade and lived to be over 80 years old.
What is Ramses the Great?
500
The lives of the peasants were most influenced by .....
What is planting season?
500
The pharaohs built up armies.
What is the biggest thing that happened in the New Kingdom?