The Nile River
Life in Ancient Egypt
Egypt's Empire
Kingdom of Kush
Vocabulary
100
Nile River flooding affected Egypt in this way.
What is it left behind dark, rich mud that improved the soil?
100
This is how the building of the pyramids affected knowledge in Egypt.
What is the Egyptians gained advanced knowledge in math and science?
100
This is a person who represents their country in a foreign place.
What is an envoy?
100
This is a grassy plain with some scattered trees.
What is a savanna?
100
This is a government in which the same person is the political and religious leader.
What is a theocracy?
200
This is a fan-shaped area of marshy land at a river's mouth.
What is a delta?
200
This is the process of preserving dead bodies.
What is embalming?
200
This marked the beginning of the New Kingdom.
What is Prince Ahmose defeated the Hyksos?
200
This caused the end of Ahkenaton's rule.
What is Ahkenaton neglected his duties and allowed the Hittites to attack Egypt?
200
This is woven cloth.
What are textiles?
300

Ancient Egyptians did this by digging basins to capture water and then digging canals.

What is a irrigation?
300

This is the role that bureaucrats played in the Old Kingdom.

What is they controlled trade and collected taxes?
300
This is how tributes affected Egypt during the Middle Kingdom.
What is tributes were used to improve Egypt by building dams and improving farmland?
300
This is how geography affected Meroe.
What is it was located near iron ore deposits and trees, which allowed it to become an iron-making center?
300
This is a line of rulers from one family.
What is a dynasty?
400
This is the ancient form of Egyptian writing.
What is hieroglyphics?
400
This was the purpose of the pyramids.
What was to provide a burial place for pharaohs and to hold all his things?
400
Egypt expanded by controlling other lands and farming political ties during this Kingdom.
What is the New Kingdom?
400
These are the two names of the kingdom to the south of Egypt.
What are Nubia and Kush?
400
This is a government official.
What is a bureaucrat?
500
This is a reed plant that grows along the Nile River.
What is papyrus?
500
This is the locations of Upper and Lower Egypt along the Nile River.
What is Lower Egypt was north and Upper Egypt was south.
500
This ruler angered Egyptians by forcing them to change their religion.
Who is Amenhotep?
500
This ended Kush's rule over Egypt.
What is the Assyrian invasion?
500

This is dangerous, fast-moving water.

What is a cataract?
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