Geography
Environmental Factors to Human Settlement
Pharaohs 1
Pharaohs 2
Social Classes
100

This natural feature of Egypt is the most important, on which all Egyptians depended for most everything.

What is the Nile River?

100

This is another word for plant life.

What is vegetation?

100

This is the name of the first Pharaoh king who was also known as Narmer.

Who is Menes?

100

The pyramids of Egypt were only built during this period of ancient Egyptian history.

What is the Old Kingdom?

100

The highest social class in ancient Egypt consisted of this one person.

Who is the Pharaoh?

200

This is the name of the large desert that makes up most of the land area that is Egypt.

What is the Sahara?

200

This is the definition of the word Topography.

What is the shape and elevation of the land?

200

King Menes is best known for this accomplishment.

What is unifying Upper and Lower Egypt and creating the first dynasty?

200

The Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom of ancient Egyptian history were known for these respectively.

What are art, literature, and building (Middle Kingdom) and imperialism or expanding the empire (New Kingdom)?

200

The main job of a priest in ancient Egypt was to take care of this.

What is the god in their temple?

300

The triangular region at the north end of the Nile is called this.

What is the Nile Delta?

300

These are the three most important factors that influence human settlement, the three things that influenced where human civilizations grew.

What are water, topography, and vegetation?

300

This is the pharaoh of ancient Egypt most famous for building the pyramids.

Who is Khufu?

300

This Pharaoh of ancient Egypt is famous for being the first female to rule as full Pharaoh.

Who is Hatshepsut?

300

The largest social class in ancient Egypt was also this.

What is the lowest, the peasants and slaves?

400

South of the Nile lies this body of water, one of the largest man-made lakes in the world at 600 feet deep.

What is Lake Nasser?

400

These are three of the five uses to which ancient humans put water.

What are drinking, bath/washing (preventing disease), food, growing crops, and transportation? [listing 3 of those]

400

The Pharaoh Khufu declared himself this so that his power would be accepted without question.

What is a god?

400

This Pharaoh of two names with the famous Queen Nefertiti changed ancient Egypt's religion to be monotheistic, only worshipping one god.

Who is Amenhotep, who changed his name to Akenaten?

400

These were the three most important government officials in ancient Egypt.

What are the Vizier, the Chief Treasurer, and the General of the Armies?

500

This allows watercraft to make their way from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean without circling Africa.

What is the Suez Canal?

500

Name five of the 8 things vegetation provided.

What are [five of] food, baskets, tools, medicine, rope, paper, shade, natural beauty?

500

These folk built the pyramids of Egypt.

Who are peasant farmers?

500

The Pharaoh Ramses II was famous for making the world's first this, with the Hittites.

What is a peace treaty?

500

These were the two opportunities that men had to rise in social class beyond what they were born into.

What are becoming a scribe or a soldier?

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