Vocabulary
Geography of the Nile
Geography of the Nile / Egypt's Powerful Kings and Queens
Egypt's Powerful Kings and Queens
Egypt Religion
100

Someone who rules for a child until they are old enough to rule

Regent

100

City that connects the Blue and White Nile

Khartoum

100

How many Cataracts does the Nile river have

6

100

What are the three kingdoms of Egypt

Old, Middle, and New Kingdom

100

God that flooded the Nile river

Hapi

200

Bodies were preserved and Egyptians believed the spirit would exit in the afterlife 

Mummies

200

What desert lays west of Egypt and part of the East of Egypt

Sahara Desert

200

What is the red land

Desert

200

First dynasty had a king that united Upper and Lower Egypt. What was the name of the king

Menes

200

When did they mostly built the pyramid

The Old Kingdom

300

There is life after death

Afterlife

300

What is the name Egyptians called their land

Kemet

300

After the Greek conquered Egypt who else conquered Egypt 300 years later

The Romans

300

Who first conquered Egypt

Greek ruler, Alexander the Great

300

To built a pyramid they did not use the wheel

Use sleds and wooden rollers

400

Rulers from the same family

Dynasty

400

How were Nubians able trade with other civilizations

traveled overland

400

The Nile makes two huge bends and forms a shape

S shape

400

What was the declined of the Old Kingdom

Governors in the provinces began to challenge the power of the pharaohs

400

Why were the bodies of preserved and turned into mummies

The spirit would exist in the afterlife

500

Fertile soil that is carried by running water

Silt

500

Egypt faced few foreign invaders in comparison to the Mesopotamia. Why did Mesopotamia had more invaders than Egypt

 Tigris and Euphrates rivers was wide-open to the raids of outsiders.

500

What began the decline of the New Kingdom 

Civil war left Egypt weak and poorly defended.

500

Thutmose III led his army in Southwest Asia. How far did his army advanced

Advanced as far east as the Euphrates River and south into Nubia.

500

Where did the stone for the inner parts of Egypt come from 

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