Ancient Egypt and Kush physical geography
The civilizations that were located in Egypt and Sudan, and were along the Nile River.
What are Egypt and Kush?
Rulers or Kings of Egypt, they were considered gods, and was both political and religious leader.
What are pharaohs?
They were a different ethnic group than Egypt, had their own system of writing, worshipped many of the same gods as Egypt but also prayed to additional gods.
What was ancient Kush?
For most of their histories, _____ and ____ enjoyed peaceful relations, (trade between the two civilizations was key to keeping good standing.
What was Egypt and Kush?
In 1500 BC Egypt ____ and ___ ___ of Kush.
What is invaded and took control?
To the east and west of the Nile River.
Reigned as pharaoh from the late 1300s to early 1200 BC, defended Egypt from enemies, and over saw the last great period of Egyptian engineering.
Who was Ramses II?
_______ was the main economic activity in kush and they had some different ones too.
What was pastoralism?
____, _____, and _____ _____ and weapons came from Kush to Egypt.
What are ivory, ebony, and iron tools?
Until about ___ BC Kush was apart of Egypt.
What was 1000 BC
The longest river in the world, flows in a northward direction and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile river?
For his deeds he earned the title _____ ___ and was pharaoh when Moses freed the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.
Who’s was Ramses II?
They traded _______, ________, and iron.
What is ivory, and ebony?
___, ____, ______ ____ (builders, artists) went from Egypt to Kush.
What are food, gold, and Egyptian talent?
By 1000 BC the height of _____ strength was declining.
What is Egyptian?
2/3 of the fertile land in Egypt and Kush.
What is the Nile Delta?
The ____ was at the top of Egyptian Society.
What was the Pharaoh?
Kush had many similarities to Egypt like _______, government, honored _______, art, and ________.
What was leadership, nobles, and architecture?
Around 1500 BC Egypt became _____ of Kush’s growing Trade with outside civilization.
What is fearful?
Threaten by _____ to the north Egypt’s rulers allowed the Nubians (Kush inhabitant) to regain power in Kush
What is invasion?
As it nears the Mediterranean Sea the Nile branches into ____ _____ flowing branches.
What is several, and slower?
Next were ____ _____ _____ ____ and last was _____ and _______
What are nobles, priests, scribes, farmers, craftsman, servants and slaves?
Historians have been unable to decipher most ______ writing.
What was Meroitic?
Particularly _______ from Mesopotamia.
What was Assyria?
peaceful trade then returned between the two civilizations until both were conquered by the ____.
What were the Greeks?