Kush
The Kingdom of Kush was located along this famous African river.
What was the Nile?
The Ancient Kushites shared religion with what other ancient civilization?
Who were the Ancient Egyptians?
Rulers or Kings of Egypt, they were considered gods, and was both political and religious leader.
Who were Pharaohs?
This is why Lower Egypt was north of Upper Egypt.
What is the Nile flows south to north?
This group came in and took over Egypt (which was being controlled by Kush at the time) and most of Kush.
Who were the Assyrians?
Which was farther south, Ancient Egypt or Ancient Kush?
What was Ancient Kush?
What the Ancient Kushites believed people experienced after death?
What was the Afterlife?
This is Ancient Egyptian writing.
What is Hieroglyphics ?
The apparatus was used to lift water from the Nile onto dry land.
What is the Shadoof?
What is the other name for Kush?
*hint, it means land of gold*
What was Nubia?
The Kushites moved from Napata to this new capital city.
What was Meroe?
These people were able to communicate with the gods.
Who were Priests?
This is the resource Kush had that Egypt wanted.
What was gold?
These are the two names for the Nile River.
What are The Blue and White Nile?
What two groups are at the bottom of the social pyramid? (they go together)
Who were Farmers/Laborers and Slaves?
This was the first capital of the Kingdom of Kush.
What was Napata?
God of the sun, creator god to both the Egyptians and the Kushites.
Who was Ra?
This is Egypt's location relative to Kush.
What is North?
He united upper and lower Egypt
Who is Narmer?
A scribe is someone who....
What is reads and writes for a living?
These obstacles made it nearly impossible to navigate by river for parts of the year. They also acted as natural barriers for Ancient Kush.
What were the cataracts of the Nile?
Kushites built these structures at burial locations, unlike the Egyptians theirs were steeper and smaller.
What were pyramids or mounds?
Egyptians used this to make boats, sandals, baskets, and paper?
What is papyrus?
Who was Osiris to the Ancient Egyptians.
What is God of the Afterlife?
A major factor in making Kush an important trading center along the Nile River
What is connecting central and southern Africa to Egypt?