UPPER/LOWER EGYPT
The capital of Upper Egypt is ____________.
What is Thebes?
The Nile River is _________ miles long.
(You may round.)
What is 4,000 miles?
This was the source of life in Egypt's dry, barren desert.
What is the Nile River?
After flooding occurred it left _______, which was perfect for farming.
What is silt?
The belief in many gods.
The Nile River ends here.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Rock formations that create churning rapids - similar to a waterfall.
What are cataracts?
The Nile River provided what type of crops for the Egyptians, __________, ____________, _________ and ____________.
What are beans, lentils, dates, and watermelon.
The reason farmers were willing to risk their lives in order to steal a few feet of farmland.
What is fertile soil/silt?
The leader of government and religion.
What is a pharaoh?
True or False: Upper Egypt is located in the Northern part of Egypt and Lower Egypt is located in the Southern part of Egypt.
What is False?
An area where the river fans out into various branches as it flows into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is a delta?
The Nile River provided farming for the Egyptians. What was the name of the technology used to help the Egyptians.
What is Irrigation?
What is a shaduf?
True or False: The flooding season occurred at different times and the Egyptians didn't know when it would happen. (Explain why you picked your answer)
What is false? The Nile river flooded at the same time every year. It was predictable.
The process used to preserve bodies. Only the wealthy could afford this process.
What is mummification?
Lower Egypt is known for it's _______________ land.
What is fertile?
The Nile River branches off into the __________________ Sea and is next to the ________ Sea.
What is the Mediterranean and the Red Sea?
The narrow stretch of land that ran along both sides of the Nile. There, the river's waters and nourishing dark silt allowed plants to grow and people to live.
What is black land?
This was needed to manage these growing societies. As villages grew into towns, they needed __________.
What is leadership?
What are valuable items for the afterlife? (contained food, furniture, pets, sculptures, jewelry, etc.)
Egypt produced a huge food surplus allowing people to focus on one job. This is known as _______________.
What is the ibises bird?
The vast scorching desert that surrounded the Nile river was known as the ________ _________.
What is red land?
The 3 seasons of of ancient Egypt were ___________, ______________, and ______________. (agriculture)
What is flood, grow crops, and harvest?
The only internal organ that was NOT removed when preserving a body.
What is the heart?