The female pharaoh who concentrated on building the Egyptian economy through trade
What is Hatshepsut?
100
Located in Africa, it is the longest river in the world
What is the Nile River?
100
Unlike Queen Hatshepsut, this Egyptian pharaoh focused on conquering new territory, enslaving its people, and making them pay the Egyptian Kingdom tributes.
What is King Thutmose III?
200
the name of an embalmed body wrapped in cloth strips
What is mummy?
200
The first capital of Kush that was located on a trade route
What is Napata
200
The chief god of the Egyptians; sun god; god of creation
What is Re?
200
Grasslands south of Egypt where the first Nubians settled
What is savanna?
200
Kush emerged as a leading power after it learned _____-making skills; a skill taught to them by the Assyrians.
What is iron?
300
The term for the Egyptian invention that prevented the pharaoh's body from decomposing
What is embalming?
300
Capital of Egypt during the Old Kingdom
What is Memphis?
300
Pharaoh during the New Kingdom who tried to give the Egyptians a new religion
What is Amenhotep?
300
The largest desert in the world
What is Sahara?
300
Egypt enjoyed a golden age of culture and peace during this Kingdom, with advances in art, literature, and architecture.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
400
The name of the book of spells and prayers that Egyptians studied to help obtain an afterlife
What is The Book of the Dead?
400
Under King Piye, the Kushites moved their capital south to ________ to be farther away from the Assyrians.
What is Meroe?
400
Also known as King Menes, he united Upper and Lower Egypt
What is Narmer?
400
Area of fertile soil at the end of the Nile River
What is the Nile Delta?
400
King Narmer united Upper and Lower Egypt into one Kingdom organized into social classes that resembles the shape of a ___________, with the pharaoh at the top and the unskilled workers at the bottom.
What is a pyramid?
500
a line of rulers that passes power from father to son to grandson
What is dynasty?
500
A region known for being a strong civilization that arose along the Nile River south of Egypt
What is Nubia?
500
The Egyptian prince who drove the Hyksos out of Egypt
What is Ahmose?
500
The natural barrier that protected Egypt in the south; wild rapids formed by boulders and narrow cliffs