The Nile River Valley
People of the River
Uniting Egypt
Miscellaneous
100
This river was the lifeblood of the civilization of Egypt, which began around 5000 B.C.E.
What is the Nile River?
100
Farmers along the Nile River used different methods of this in order to keep their farms full of fresh water which came from the Nile.
What is irrigation?
100
Once unified, the capital of Egypt was moved to this city which shares the name of a city in the state of Tennessee.
What is Memphis?
100
The Nile River is the longest in the world, measuring in around this many miles in length.
(Looking for an estimate)
What is (around) 4000 miles?
200
The first settlers of Egypt made their homes and farmland on the fertile soil called Kemet, which means this in English.
What is "black land"
200
Egyptian farmers were able to prepare themselves every year for this predictable action of the Nile River which spread fertile soil throughout the valley.
What is flooding?
200
These natural barriers full of sand and hot temperatures surrounded Egypt and allowed the Egyptians to grow surpluses of food and set their sights on establishing a more organized government to run their growing society.
What are deserts?
200
This geographic feature is a fan shaped, fertile marshland at the end of the Nile River where it branches out into several smaller rivers.
What is a delta?
300
The Nile River flows from this direction to that direction and empties out into the Mediterranean Sea, which borders northern Egypt.
What is south to north?
300
This device helped Egyptians capture water from the Nile and use it for their farmland.
What is a shadoof?
300
Known as the first pharaoh of Egypt, this ruler of Upper Egypt eventually untied the civilization through military conquest and diplomacy.
Who is Narmer?
300
Along with Egypt, this civilization developed along the Nile River in present day Sudan which is just south of Egypt.
What is Kush?
OR
Who are the Kushites?
400
The lack of this that Egypt receives each year due to its hot and dry climate makes the fresh water from the Nile River extremely important to its settlers.
What is rain OR rainfall?
400
This reed plant grew wildly along the banks of the Nile and have many uses to the Egyptians.
What is papyrus?
400
Upper and Lower Egypt were two __________, a country or state ruled by a king/queen, that were eventually united under one ruler.
What are kingdoms?
400
The large desert that lies to the west of the Nile River, the largest hot desert in the world and the third largest cold desert.
What is the Sahara Desert?
500
At its source, the Nile River is actually these two separate rivers that converge and form one large river.
What is the Blue and White Nile?
500
The Rosetta Stone, discovered in the Nile Delta in 1799 by the French, included the picture symbol language called hieroglyphics along with these two other languages that helped linguists (those who study languages) decode the meaning behind hieroglyphics.
What is Greek and Demotic?
500
30 of these ruled Egypt for almost 3,000 years, which are lines of rulers from one family.
What are dynasties?
500
These three farming seasons dictated the lives of farmers in Egypt in order to grow food for their communities.
Name those seasons.
What are the flood (Akhet), growing/planting (Peret) and harvest (Shemu) seasons.