Geography
Ancient Egypt was located in _________ along the Nile River.
Northeast Africa
The ancient Egyptians mostly practiced _________ throughout their history, but they had a different set of gods than the civilizations in Mesopotamia.
Polytheism
Did aliens build the pyramids?
Ancient Egypt was a __________ since the pharaoh was a king or queen who had complete control of the government.
Monarchy
The ________of the Nile River made it possible for the Egyptians to live in the desert because the floods left behind a strip of fertile soil along its banks.
Flooding
A ________ is a small river that flows into a larger river.
Tributary
The most important leader in ancient Egyptian religion was the_______, who was also the ruler in charge of the entire civilization.
Pharaoh
Historians think that ___________ of paid laborers used sleds and ramps to move stones weighing several tons and stack them on top of each other.
Thousands
It is believed that a king named _____ or ______ united Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt to form one kingdom around 3100 BCE.
Menes, Narmer
A large labor force was needed to complete these huge building projects, such as building the _________
Pyramids
This cataract was also known as the First Cataract, which marked the unofficial boundary between Egypt and _____.
Nubia
All of the people were also expected to observe ma’at through ____ _________ and honoring their ________ and gods. Those who did would be rewarded with a peaceful afterlife.
Good behavior, Pharaoh
The Egyptians created one of the first writing systems in the world called ___________, which used symbols to communicate sounds, words, and ideas.
Hieroglyphics
The largest pyramid at Giza, also known as the Great Pyramid, belonged to a pharaoh named _____, who is one of the most famous pharaohs from the Old Kingdom.
Khufu
the Egyptians traded items like _____, _______, and _____ to the Kushites.
Grain, papyrus, clothe
The northern boundary was at the river delta, where the Nile separated into several smaller branches and emptied into the _________________ ___
Mediterranean Sea
Deceased bodies will decay if left untreated, so the Egyptians transformed them into _________.
Mummies
Historians could not translate hieroglyphics until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in _______.
1799
Egypt created its first permanent, full-time ____ during this time.
Army
The Kushites moved their capital city to _____ after they lost control of Egypt to the Assyrians.
Meroë
The Egyptians called their land _____, or the “Black Land,” due to the dark color of the fertile soil along the Nile.
Kemet
What are the steps to preserve a mummy?
removing the body’s organs, drying it out with salt, wrapping it, and burying it in a coffin called a sarcophagus.
Hieroglyphics were invented between ______ ______ _______, around the same as cuneiform in Mesopotamia.
3200 BCE-3000 BCE
__________ was one of a few female pharaohs in Egyptian history, who authorized several building projects and greatly increased Egypt’s wealth through trade with other civilizations.
Hatshepsut
African traders brought items to Aksum, which were then traded by sea to markets around the ______ _____
Indian Ocean