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Why do you think no one has been able to decode Meroitic?
Because they have nothing to use as something to decode it with like the rosetta stone
What natural occurrence might the Egyptians have believed the god Amon-Ra helped explain?
The sun
Describe the role of women in the kingdom of Kush.
Queens, led military expeditions, built great monuments
What made the Egyptian economy more prosperous?
Trading
What do the jobs described and the social structure reveal about what was important to the ancient Egyptians?
They could move up in the class structure
What caused the soil deposits at the Nile delta?
The river can’t have so soil because the river isn’t going as fast
what does pharaoh mean?
The Great House
Where is Lower Egypt located?
The northern part of Egypt
What did scribes record
Laws, regulations, official documents, and things like how wheet much they harvested
For what goods did Egypt rely on Nubia?
Gold, Ivory, cattle, and ostrich feathers
Who was the first king to wear the double crown of United Egypt?
King meme
How long ago did civilization emerge in Nubia?
5218
Why did the Nubians and Egyptians borrowed from each other’s culture?
to help each other
Why did Akhenaten’s advisors take control?
Because he was going insane with Amon-Ra
what made hieroglyphics so hard to translate
Because there were 700 different signs/pictures and there wasn’t anything really like it and so only a few people know what it means
what are hieroglyphics
A way of writing in ancient Egypt
What was the “black land” in Egypt?
Because the land was very fertile
How did this discovery help archaeologists decode hieroglyphics?
The Rosetta Stone
What makes Manetho so important to historians?
He kept records
what's a pharaoh
a ruler in ancient Egypt
What events led to the decline of Egyptian civilization?
Kush got its independence back
Who built the pyramids? When did they work on the construction?
Farmers during the wet season
what does unify mean
To unite, combine, or bring together
Pyriamd
A structure that ancient Egyptians pharaohs went when they died
The Nile provided life for ancient Egyptians, but it may have also produced problems. What problem might have been caused by the Nile?
floods