Religion
Vocabulary
Nubia
Geography
Rulers/Kingdoms
100
They kept pharaohs in this building when they died to protect them.
What is a pyramid?
100
A person who makes jewelry or pottery.
What is an artisan?
100
Nubia became a bridge for this.
What is trading?
100
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
100
The ruler of ancient Egypt that had absolute control.
What is a pharaoh?
200
The ancient Egyptians demonstrated their belief in life after death by doing what to the dead?
What is preserving the bodies or mummifying the bodies?
200
Egyptian picture writing is called this.
What are hieroglyphs?
200
You would travel this direction on the Nile to get to Nubia?
What is south.
200
This is what a rock filled rapid is called.
What is a cataract?
200
The person who ruled for the pharaoh when the pharaoh was too young.
What is a regent?
300
The ancient Egyptians thought that religion explained this.
What are natural events?
300
Paper made from reeds is called this.
What is papyrus?
300
Nubia was called this.
What is the "Land of the Bow?"
300
The Nile River floods leaving this and makes the land fertile for farming.
What is silt?
300
Most people belonged to this class of people in ancient Egypt.
What are peasants?
400
Jewels and other precious items were put with the mummy for this reason.
What is for their souls to use in the afterlife?
400
A series of rulers from the same family is called this.
What is a dynasty?
400
In about 5000 B.C. farming communities began in here.
What is in Nubia and Egypt?
400
The Nile flows into this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
The Old Kingdom became this at it's end.
What is weak and divided?
500
Khufu buried this next to his pyramid for his trip to the afterlife.
What is a boat?
500
The reason the astronomers studied the stars.
What is to predict the flooding of the Nile River?
500
Egyptian pharaohs wanted to control Nubia because of this.
What is because they had resources like iron ore, copper, and gold?
500
The names of the 2 sources of the Nile River.
What is the Blue Nile and the White Nile?
500
This happened when Nubians controlled the trade routes.
What is they became rich.
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