Lesson 1
What is a dynasty?
Originally, the Egyptian rulers were called kings but later on, they were known as this.
What is a Pharoah?
During the Middle Kingdom, the capital was moved south to this city.
What is Thebes?
Nubia was another civilization that flourished in Africa and was also known as this.
What is Kush?
This is a bucket attached to a long pole that lifts water from the Nile.
What is a shadoof?
One of these is a dangerous, fast moving body of water and the other is a fan shaped area of fertile marshland. Name one.
What is a delta or a cataract?
Egyptian doctors wrote down medical information on these to make the world's first medical books.
What is papyrus scrolls?
As Egypt weakened during the Middle Kingdom, these outsiders invaded from Western Asia.
Who are the Hyksos?
In 671 B.C., these warriors invaded Egypt and defeated the Kushites.
Who are the Assyrians?
These tombs were built to honor their pharaohs in a special way.
What are pyramids?
This was the first king to rule all of Egypt.
What was Narmer?
This type of government is when the political leader and religious leader are the same person.
What is a theocracy?
This is how old Tutankhamen was when he came to power and how old he was when he died.
What is 10 and 19?
The central location of this city made it an important trade link between Egypt and Southern Africa.
What is Meroe?
Pharaohs appointed these government officials to carry out their orders.
What are bureaucrats?
How were the floods in Egypt different from the floods in Sumer?
The floods on the Nile were more predictable than the ones in Sumer.
Name the two most crucial gods in Egypt during the Old Kingdom and what were they the gods of?
Who are Re, the sun god, and Hapi, the river god?
This queen was one of the few women to rule Egypt and her son/nephew followed after her. Name them both.
Who are Hatshepsut and Thutmose III?
In 850 B.C., powerful kings ruled Nubia from it's capital, called this.
What is Napata?
Hieroglypics were a complex writing system that included these two things.
What are pictures and sounds?
Many of Egypt's structures survived due to this.
Egyptians had this type of view of the afterlife and this is the process used to protect their bodies for the afterlife.
What is a positive view and embalming?
What did Amenhotep IV do that most Egyptians disagreed with?
Nubia became successful as the kingdom of Kerma grew wealthy from these two things, primarily.
What are agriculture and the mining of gold?
Name one fact about either women or enslaved people that is unusual and progressive thinking for an ancient civilization.
What is that enslaved people were able to earn their freedom or Egyptian women held a legal status similar to that of men?
This is the reason why Egypt was rarely invaded.
The Great Pyramid in Giza was build to honor this pharaoh.
Who is Khufu?
Who was Ahmose?
The Twenty-fifth Dynasty was started by this son of King Kashta, who invaded Egypt but died before he completed the conquest.
Who was Piye?
Around 350 A.D., the armies of this place invaded Kush and destroyed Meroe.
What is Axum?