This civilization emerged in the northern part of the Nile River valley.
What is Egypt?
Because of this type of climate, Egypt's ancient structures have survived.
What is hot and dry?
The fan-shaped area of the Nile's fertile marshland.
What is the Nile Delta?
Unlike in Mesopotamia, the floods of the Nile were this.
What is predictable?
As farming and trade increased in ancient Egypt, a need for this became increasingly important.
What is an organized government?
This civilization emerged in the far southern part of the Nile River valley.
What is Kush?
The ancient Egyptians depended on the Nile River for drinking, bathing, and for this other reason.
What is growing crops?
To the west of the Nile River is the Libyan Desert, which is part of this larger desert.
What is the Sahara?
This is the season when the Nile would flood the land.
What is summer?
Tese were the two large kingdoms that made up ancient Egypt in 4000 B.C.
What was Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt?
This is what the earliest Egyptians called their land, which means black land named because of the dark, rich soil.
What is Kemet?
The Nile River is about this long in miles.
What is 4000 miles?
The ancient Egyptians called the Eastern Desert this because of their scorching heat.
What is the "Red Land"?
This reed plant grew wild along the Nile and was used for making paper, baskets, sandals, and more.
What is papyrus?
This king unified the kingdoms.
Who is Narmer?
This has the body of a lion and a human head.
What is the Sphinx?
Because of how important it is, this is what some call the Nile River.
What is "the lifeblood" of Egypt?
What are deserts?
The combinations of pictures and sound symbols created this complex writing system.
What are hieroglyphics?
This was the new capital after the two kingdoms were unified.
What was Memphis?
This type of person studies pyramids and the mummies from ancient Egypt.
What is an archaeologist?
What are cataracts?
These two seas provided opportunities for trade.
What are the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea?
A bucket attached to a long pole that lifts water from the Nile and empties it into basins.
What is a shadoof?
A line of rulers from one family.
What is a dynasty?