Ancient Egypt Topography
This was the "dead" about the Dead Sea
It was too salty for any form of life
This is why ancient Egyptians made mummies
To preserve dead bodies of the pharaohs
This activity in ancient Egypt was only permitted to men
Scribe
This is how historians learned about ancient Kush
Egyptian tomb wall paintings
Jerusalem was considered the holy city because this was kept there
The Ark of the Covenant
This was a major part of the topography of ancient Egypt
A river valley
This was built with more than 2 million stone blocks and had tunnels inside
The great pyramid of Giza
In the life of a peasant, this season came after the flooding season
the planting season
King Piye is remembered for this achievement
Conquering Egypt
This form of most ancient religions was not followed and rejected by the Jews
Polytheism
The vegetation along the Nile River that was useful
Reeds and Papyrus
Hatshepsut was one of the first pharaohs to be this
A woman
They build the giant temples of the pharaohs during this season
Peasant farmers during the flooding season
This technology enabled the Assyrians to defeat the Kush
Iron weapons
The festival of Passover celebrates this
The Exodus from Egypt
This is how the desert helped the people of Egypt and Kush
It gave protection from invaders
This was the main characteristic that Egypt's Middle Kingdom was especially famous for
reunification
This was the only way that a boy from the peasant class could rise to a higher class in Egypt
attend scribe school
This event led the Kushites to adopting the Egyptian way of life
Egyptian pharaohs conquered Kush
The Torah comes from this
The first five books of the Hebrew Bible
This was the only role that women could be in the Egyptian social class system
Priestesses
This place is what the Jewish people believe was the promised land
Canaan