What is: it brought fertile land (and life to the region because flooding coats the land with silt that is ideal for farming which increased food production allowing villages and cities to grow).
100
A series of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
100
These triangular shaped tombs/monuments were built grand and spectacular to honor a pharaoh's importance. Knowledge of engineering made the construction of these possible.
What is a pyramid?
100
People from rich and powerful families were from this social class.
What is nobles?
100
Belief in this was central to Egyptian religion; one reason: Egyptians believed people enjoyed art, jewelry, and other treasures after they died.
What is the afterlife?
200
The two important regions the Nile River flows through in Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt?
200
Pharaoh who united Egypt and became the first pharaoh; he wore a double crown to symbolize rule over both Upper and Lower Egypt.
What is Menes?
200
This period (Kingdom) was a period of order and stability. It ended with the invasion of the Hyksos.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
200
Job that employed the MOST people in Egypt.
What is farmer?
200
According to ancient Egyptian belief, a person's life force is known as this.
What is ka?
300
A triangle-shaped area of land.
What is a delta?
300
Person in Egypt blamed if crops did not grow or if there was disease.
What is the pharaoh (who was both ruler and god)?
300
This pharaoh's tomb was discovered in 1922, and taught us much about Egyptian burial practices.
What is King Tutankhamen?
300
These middle class government officials were honored in Egyptian society.
What is scribes?
300
The burial practices of Egyptians included preserving dead bodies as these.
What is mummies?
400
Egyptian farmers used these to direct water from the river to their fields.
What is canals?
400
The most famous pharaoh of the OLD Kingdom.
What is Khufu?
400
Ahmose became king at the beginning of this Kingdom (when Egypt reached the height of its power and glory/Egypt's Golden Age), then the pharaohs lost control and Egypt broke up in to small states.
What is The New Kingdom?
400
This provided a Greek text that matched the early Egyptian writing. It helped scholars and historians in their study of hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
400
Belief in more than one god is known as this.
What is polytheism?
500
A feature of the Nile River that both protected Egypt from invaders AND prevented sailing on parts of the river.
What is cataracts?
500
Pharaoh BEST remembered as a GREAT warrior (against the Hittites and the Tehenu) and builder.
What is Ramses the Great?
500
This female pharaoh sent traders great distances to buy and sell goods because Egypt's conquest of distant lands contributed to the growth of trade in the New Kingdom.
What is Hatshepsut?
500
A statue of an imaginary creature BEST describes this.
What is sphinx?
500
Elaborate buidings that served as places to worship and honor the gods. (There were some in Abu Simbel).