GIFT OF THE NILE
This river made large-scale agriculture and civilization possible in ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
This title was given to the rulers of ancient Egypt.
What is a pharaoh?
This period of Egyptian history is most famous for the construction of the great pyramids.
What is the Old Kingdom?
These mysterious raiders attacked kingdoms across the eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age Collapse.
Who were the Sea Peoples?
This city founded by Alexander became the great Greek-speaking capital of Ptolemaic Egypt.
What is Alexandria?
The rich soil deposited by the Nile’s annual flooding made this activity especially productive.
What is farming?
According to tradition, this early ruler united Upper and Lower Egypt into a single kingdom.
Who was Narmer/Menes?
This period restored Egyptian unity after the collapse of the Old Kingdom and became an age of renewed prosperity.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
This widespread crisis around 1200 BCE destroyed or weakened many civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean.
What was the Bronze Age Collapse?
This Macedonian general established the dynasty that ruled Egypt after Alexander’s death.
Who was Ptolemy I?
This region of Egypt lay upriver in the south, while Lower Egypt was located around the northern delta.
What is Upper Egypt?
This Egyptian god of the dead became closely associated with judgment and the afterlife.
Who was Osiris?
This powerful period saw Egypt expand into a major military empire.
What is the New Kingdom?
This famous young pharaoh’s largely intact tomb was discovered in 1922.
Who was Tutankhamun/King Tut?
This famous institution at Alexandria became one of the ancient world’s greatest centers of scholarship and learning.
What is the Library of Alexandria?
This triangular region where the Nile divides into several branches before reaching the Mediterranean became one of Egypt’s richest agricultural areas.
What is the Nile Delta?
This process preserved a dead body because Egyptians believed the body remained important in the afterlife.
What is mummification?
This female pharaoh promoted trade and monumental construction during the New Kingdom.
Who was Hatshepsut?
This Macedonian conqueror took Egypt from Persian control in 332 BCE and was welcomed as a liberator.
Who was Alexander the Great?
This final ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty formed political and romantic alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.
Who was Cleopatra VII?
This more technical term for the Nile River flooding every year, allowing for fertile silt deposits to nourish its shores and soil.
Inundation
This massive tomb constructed for Pharaoh Khufu became the largest pyramid at Giza.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
This New Kingdom pharaoh attempted to transform Egyptian religion by promoting the worship of Aten above the traditional gods.
Who was Akhenaten?
These African peoples from the south ruled Egypt from 760 to 656 BCE. Their reign was known as the 25th dynasty and their pyramids had a distinctively steep appearance.
Who were the Nubian Kushites?
After Cleopatra’s defeat and death in 30 BCE, Egypt became a province of this expanding Mediterranean power.
What is the Roman Empire?