The Old Kingdom
The Old Kingdom is considered to begin and end around when?
The Middle Kingdom began and lasted until when?
What is The Middle Kingdom began around 2100 BCE and lasted until about 1800 BCE?
When has the New Kingdom began and ended?
What is about 1500 BCE until 1000 BCE?
What are examples of Floods can cause Harm?
What is flooding can harm wildlife. The water can drown animals and destroy habitats. For example, a flood in India in 2012 killed many one-horned rhino.
During this period, the pharaoh's of Egypt had what?
What is the pharaoh's of Egypt had absolute power and were considered gods on earth?
The Middle Kingdom is considered?
What is, "Egypt's Golden Age?"
What is the period known as?
What is Egypt's expansion period?
What are sediments?
What is particles of mud and dirt float in water. Too much sediment will block rivers and streams from flowing. This can kill water-dwelling animals and destroy habitats.
Why was this kingdom named "The Pyramid Age?"
What is the Pharaoh's were buried in pyramids only during this time period in history? After building a few pyramids, at a great cost to the state, it occurred to the pharaoh's that pyramids were rather easy to spot, and thus, much easier to rob than a hidden tomb.
What did the pharaoh's of the Middle Kingdom do?
What did the expansion do?
What is Egypt expanded its borders through military conquest and become a world power?
Can floods carry pollution?
What is "yes". These pollutants can include pesticides, garbage or sewage. Sometimes polluted flood water can run into the ocean. This can harm marine life.
Floods can also lead to disease outbreaks.
What is the power of the pharaoh's diminished and several severe droughts cause the country to enter a period of famine and strife known as?
What is the First Intermediate Period?
Also, in the Old Kingdom, The Great Sphinx of Giza was build during this period.
Was there trade in this period?
What is, "Yes. Trade flourished along with art and literature."
What is the Valley of Kings?
What is during this time period, pharaoh's were buried in the same geographical area?
Some of these great pharaohs included Akhenaten, Ramses the Great, and the female ruler Hatshepsut.
Are some floods helpful?
What is "yes".
Floods carry important nutrients to the surrounding land.
The ancient Egyptians build their first cities along the Nile. The river's floods made the nearby soil perfect for growing food.
Floods can refill pools of fresh water underground. After a while, the water reaches underground bodies of water called aquifers. These aquifers supply clean, fresh water to springs, lakes and rivers.
This period also saw/experienced what?
This period saw great food shortages, political disputes, and small-scale civil wars.
Did Egypt build armies?
What is, "Yes. Egypt build strong armies to defend itself against its neighbors."
Pharaoh's were expected to be good kings and wise rulers.
Unlike the Old Kingdom, pharaohs in the period were buried in hidden tombs all over Egypt.
Ambitious building and mining activities, however, combined with severe floods of the Nile River, strained the economy and began the slow decline into the Second Intermediate Period.
Were other powerful empires growing nearby?
What is "Yes. Other powerful empires were growing nearby, including the Assyrian Empire, Hittites, and the Sea Peoples, a powerful group of largely Greek an Phoenician/Cannanite pirates from the Aegean Sea.
These groups helped to bring an end to the New Kingdom and send Egypt into yet another Intermediate Period.
How can floods help fish, boosting water supplies?
What is "some animals use seasonal floods as a sign. The floods may signal that it is time to mate or migrate. When an animal migrates, it moves from one habitat to another.
For example, in 2016, a flood triggered thousands of birds to migrate from their wetlands habitat to the Macquarie Marshes in Australia.
Small seasonal floods can be good for fish. Sediment can provide a place for baby fish to grow. The flood waters also carry nutrients that small animals eat.
Floods can help refill fresh water supplies.