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Pharaohs
Egypt
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Vocabulary
Nubia and Kush
100

The system of using a bucket on a weighted pole to take water from the river.

What is a shadoof?

100
Egypt's first pharaoh.
Who is Menes?
100
The Egyptians began to build pyramids during the period.
What is the Old Kingdom?
100

This Pharaoh contributed most of the growth of trade in the New Kingdom.

Who is Hatshepsut?

100
A line of rulers from one family.
What is dynasty?
100

Adopted many of the beliefs and custom of Egyptian culture, lived in modern-day Sudan

Who are the Nubians?

200
Specially treated bodies wrapped in cloth.
What are mummies?
200
Best known because the Great Pyramid was built in his honor.
Who is Khufu?
200
The southern part of ancient Egypt was called this.
What is Upper Egypt?
200

The wife of Amenhotep IV.

Who is Nefertiti?

200
Steep rapids along a river.
What is cataracts?
200

Groups of traveling traders from central Africa, bringing ivory and other goods.

What are caravans?

300
The process of treating a body to keep it from decaying.
What is embalming?
300

Formed and army and drove the the Hyksos out of Egypt. 

Who is prince Ahmose?

300

 Egyptian arts and architecture thrived during this Kingdom period.

What is the Middle Kingdom?

300

This job employed most people in Egypt.

What is a farmer or herder?

300
Wrote and copied religious and literary texts.
Who are scribes?
300
Kush's rulers moved their capital to this city.
What is Meroe?
400

Name of the desert that lies to the West of Egypt.

What is the Sahara?

400

Egyptians believed these people were sons of the gods.

Who are pharaohs?

400

What city became the capital after Memphis?

What is Thebes?

400

What was the name of the new god introduced by Amenhotep IV?

Aton

400

These were spices and herbs that would be burned for their smell for religious reasons.

What is incense?

400
Kushites learned how to produce iron from this civilization. 
Who are the Assyrians?
500
A reed plant that grew wild along the Nile.
What is papyrus?
500

Dressed up in clothes of male pharaoh in order to be accepted by the Egyptian people.

Who is Hatshepsut?

500

What name did the Egyptians call Egypt?

What is Kemet (the Black Land)?

500

Pharaoh who reconquered the lands to the south and moved north into Syria and reunited the empire.

Who is Ramses II?

500
A fan shaped area of slit near where a river flows into the sea.
What is a delta?
500

Kush's merchants traded iron products and other items to places far away as...

What is the Mediterranean and across the Indian Ocean?
600
A flat grassland, sometimes with scattered  trees, in a tropical subtropical region.
What is a savanna?
600

Tomb was found nearly untouched by Howard Carter in 1922.

Who is Tutankhamen?

600
Lived in elegant homes and on estates along the Nile River.
What is Egypt's upper class?
600

The Pyramids were made out of this many blocks, each weighing this much.

What is 2 million blocks weighing 2.5 tons each.

600

Forced payments

What is tribute?

600
Stronger Nubian villages conquered weaker ones and formed a kingdom.
What is Kerma?