Nile River Valley
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
Early Egyptians used this object with a bucket attached to a pole to lift water from the Nile to irrigate their plants.
What is a shaduf?
The capital of Egypt moved from Memphis to this city.
What is Thebes?
This woman became the first female Pharaoh of Egypt.
Who is Hatshepsut?
Before it was Kush, this kingdom was called this.
What is Nubia?
A fan shaped area of fertile marshland
What is a delta?
This process involved removing the organs from a corpse, drying the corpse with salt, covering it in linen strips and storing it in a coffin.
What is embalming?
This group conquered Egypt in the 1600s B.C. and ruled for over 100 years.
Who are the Hyksos?
Egyptians traded with this civilization that provided them with wood and had their own alphabet.
Who are the Phoenicians?
The names of the three capitals of Nubia/Kush.
What are Kerma, Napata, and Meroe?
Fast-moving waters that hinder transportation
What are cataracts?
These people were appointed by the Pharaoh to carry out his orders.
What are bureaucrats?
Egyptians expanded these things to grow their civilization.
What are crop production and irrigation?
This Pharaoh forced Egyptians to worship only one God.
Who is Amenhotep IV/Akhenaton?
Due to the Egyptian invasion in the 1400's B.C., Nubians did this.
What is take on the beliefs and customs of the Egyptians?
This type of terrain is on the east and west sides of Egypt and protected the Egyptians from invasion.
What are deserts?
This book was written by the ancient Egyptians to explain what to expect in the afterlife
Pharaohs stopped building pyramids and started carving their tombs in cliffs here.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
Egyptian Pharaohs sent these people to other civilizations in order to maintain trade relations.
Who are envoys?
These seas to the north and south of Egypt allowed Egyptians to trade.
What are the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea?
In order to build the pyramids, ancient Egyptians developed these skills/inventions.
What is the 365 day calendar, measuring angles, and fractions.
The Pharaohs built this to connect the Nile River and Red Sea for trade.
What is the Canal of the Pharaohs?
This man was the last successful Pharaoh in Ancient Egypt, who conquered Canaan, fought the Hittites, and built new temples throughout Egypt.
Who is Ramses II?
Kush was able to trade with these faraway civilizations.
What are Arabia, India, China, and Rome?
This is the civilization that destroyed Kush.
What is Axum?