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Food and Water
Geography
Kush
Government
Hieroglyphics
100
The water source the Egyptians used
What is the Nile River?
100
These branches fan out over an area of fertile soil.
What are deltas?
100
The original name of the town of Kush
Where is Nubia?
100
These two kingdoms became unified
Where is Upper and Lower Egypt?
100
A complex writing system
What is hieroglyphics?
200
The Egyptians used the Nile for these reasons
What is bathing, drinking water, farming and cleaning?
200
Narrow cliffs and boulders in the Nile that form wild rapids
What are cataracts?
200
The Egyptians invaded this town after Kerma collapsed
What is Kush?
200
Because of these, the Egyptians needed a government.
What is farming, crafts and trade?
200
A place where people study to learn hieroglyphics
What are temples?
300
Because of these, it was easier to carry water from the Nile River to the basins.
What are shadoofs?
300
Branches that fan out over an area of fertile soil
What is a delta?
300
The people of Kush used this metal for their plows and hoes instead of copper and stone
What is Iron?
300
The earliest rulers
What are village chiefs?
300
These people carved hieroglyphics into stone
Who were scribes?
400
Wheat, barley, and flax were planted in the Nile at this time
What is the time of the Nile floods?
400
The Nile floods were much more consistent and gentle than these two rivers
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
400
Kushs traders received these from the interior of Africa.
What are leopard skins and valuable woods?
400
The King of Upper Egypt
Who is Narmer?
400
Scribes worked for these people to carve hieroglyphics
Who were rulers, priests and traders?
500
These are the two rivers that begin the Nile
What is the Blue Nile and the White Nile?
500
Dark fertile silt, or mud left from when water went down
What is the Black Land?
500
What stood along the Upper Nile where there trade caravans crossed the river
What is the Napata?
500
This is what the Egyptians relied on to divide into social groups
What is wealth and power?
500
These Egyptian people went to temples to learn become scribes
What are Egyptian men?