rich farmland is created by this proper physical feature
What is the Nile River?
100
triangle-shaped area at the mouth of a river
What is a delta?
100
The Egyptian pharaohs ruled with absolute power of these people
Who are all Egyptians?
100
The ancient Egyptians demonstrated their belief in life afgter death by doing this
What is preserving the bodies of their dead? (Mummifying)
200
a powerful Egyptian ruler
What is a pharaoh?
200
Around 4000 B.C. the earliest communities in the Nile River valley first developed here
What is the delta of lower Egypt?
200
Because ancient Egyptian civilization was located on the banks of the Nile River, Egypt had this
What is rich farmland?
200
Egypt became bigger and more prosperous (rich) during this time period
What is the first six dynasties?
200
name two sources that feed into the Nile River and begin south of Egypt
What are the Blue and White Nile?
300
An Egyptian ruler was often buried in this triangular-shaped building
What is a pyramid?
300
This kingdom of Nubians became rich by controlling trade routes and using iron weapons
What is Meroe?
300
Thebes, Giza, and Aswan are major towns or trading centers on this river
What is The Nile?
300
people from this kingdom made their own iron weapons and tools
Who are people from Meroe?
300
someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule
What is a regent? (Hatchepsut for Thutmose III)
400
A family of rulers
What is a dynasty?
400
Because of Nubia's location between Egypt and Central Africa, it was this
What is a center for trade?
400
The lives of the Egyptian peasants were greatly influenced by this (piruit/shait)
What is the planting seasons?
400
The social class that most Egyptians belonged to
What is workers and farmers?
400
This affected the lives of people by explaining works of nature (drought/sickness/death), preserved bodies with elaborate funerals, and building huge pyramids
What is religion?
500
Egyptians used reedlike plants to make this type of paper
What is papyrus?
500
The development of civilization including market towns, early communities, a vital economic life, the desert as protection, and the Nile as a trade highway was helped by this
What is physical geography?
500
the body of water north of Egypt and the body of water to its east
What is the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the east?
500
They studied the stars to predict the flooding of the Nile River
Who are astronomers?
500
His greatest achievement was uniting Upper and Lower Egypt