SPICES
Vocabulary #1
Vocabulary #2 - Places
Vocabulary #3 - People
100
  • Location 

  • Physical 

  • Movement 

  • Use 

  • Environment 

  • Land forms 

GeoSpatial

100

The resting place of Old Kingdom pharaohs

Pyramid

100

The current capital of Egypt

Cairo

100

The king who united the Old Kingdom of Egypt

Narmer

200
  • War, Conflict 

  • Trade, Commerce

  • Exchanges, Migrations 

  • Diplomacy, Alliances 

  • Transnational Organizations

Interactions

200

A political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler

Empire

200

The Nile flows in which direction into which body of water? (Two part answer)

Northward into the Meditteranean

200

The pharaoh who made a treaty with a Hittite king that promised "peace and brotherhood between us forever"

Ramses II

300
  • Industrialization

  • Capitalism, Socialism 

  • Business Organizations

  • Technology 

  • Industry

  • Science, Invention, Innovation 

  • Power 

  • Transportation

  • Communication 

Economic Structures

300

Type of government where rule is based on religious authority

Theocracy

300

The ancient capital of Egypt

Thebes

300

A Kushite king who overthrew the Libyan dynasty of Egypt

Piankhi

400
  • Economic, Social Classes 

  • Gender Roles, Relations 

  • Inequalities 

  • Family, Kinship 

  • Racial & Ethnic Constructs 

Social Structures

400

The embalming and drying of a corpse to prevent decaying

Mummification

400

A region in Africa that is south of Egypt and straddled the Upper Nile river

Nubia

400

Asiatic invaders who ruled Egypt from about 1640 to 1570 B.C.

Hyksos

500

- Intellectual

  • Arts, Architecture

  • Religion 

  • World Views 

  • Philosophy 

  • Lifestyle, Entertainment 

  • Literatures 

  • Secularism, Atheism 

  • Ideologies and “isms” 

Cultural Structures

500

Egyptian god-kings

Pharaohs

500

This city became home to the Kushite royal family after their defeat by the Assyrians

Meroe

500

This female pharaoh dedicated her rule to trade 

Hatshepsut

600
  • States 

  • Leaders 

  • Forms of Control 

  • Law 

  • Bureaucracy 

  • State-building, Expansion 

Political Structures

600

A broad, marshy, triangular area of land formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of the river

Delta

600

This body of water allowed for trade to flourish between the Kushite royal family and Africa, Arabia, and India

Red Sea

600

Hatshepsut's stepson who focused on war and conquest

Thutmose III