Geography
This triangle-shaped area of wetlands is where the Nile River spreads out and flows into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is a delta
(or the Nile Delta)
This ancient civilization began around 3100 BCE and lasted over almost 3000 years.
What is Egypt?
These large buildings were constructed in both Ancient Egypt and in the Kush Kingdom to contain tombs of dead rulers.
What are pyramids?
This Ancient Egyptian became pharaoh at about 10 years old, and he died only about 9 years later.
Who was Tutankhamen?
(a.k.a. "King Tut")
This word describes the process that Ancient Egyptians used to embalm a dead body to prepare it for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
This is the name of ancient Egypt's writing system.
What is hieroglyphics?
The Kingdom of Kush traded and sometimes fought with its neighboring kingdom to the north. This neighboring kingdom controlled Kush for about 700 years, and that then was controlled by Kush for about 200 years?
What is Egypt?
This word describes sections of the Nile River where dangerous rapids are caused by rocks, curves, and cliffs along the river.
What are cataracts?
Historians divide ancient Egypt's history into three main periods: first from about 2600 to 2200 BCE, second from about 2055 to 1650 BCE, and third from about 1550 to 1070 BCE. Historians give these periods three simple names.
What are Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom?
The mummified body of an Egyptian ruler was buried in a tomb along with these other things to make the ruler more comfortable in his or her afterlife.
What are possessions?
(Also accept the answer of treasures or stuff)
This female pharaoh strengthened Egypt's economy through trade. She was one of Egypt's most powerful and successful rulers.
Who was Hatshepsut?
Ancient Egypt's religion was polytheistic, which means they believed in this.
What are multiple gods (or deities)
This natural event was more predictable for Egyptians in the Nile River valley than it was for Mesopotamian civilizations along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is flooding?
Built by Kushite people for their dead rulers, these tombs were similar to Egyptian structures but were smaller and with steeper sides.
What are pyramids?
In addition to the Nile River, the Ancient Egyptian empire reached what two other major bodies of water?
What are Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea?
Egypt's Middle Kingdom ended when it was conquered by this group of invaders.
Who were the Hyksos?
In Egypt's Old Kingdom, dead pharaohs were buried in pyramids along the Nile River in Lower Egypt. In the Middle Kingdom, Egyptians began hiding their pharaohs' tombs deep inside rocky cliffs in this area further up the Nile River Valley.
What is Valley of the Kings?
This word describes a government official who works for a king.
What is a bureaucrat?
Ancient Egypt's most important god was Re (a.k.a. Ra), who was god of this.
What is the sun?
Ancient Egyptians wrote on flat sheets made from this plant growing along the Nile River.
What is papyrus?
What is gold?
Egypt's first pharaoh was King Narmer. In about 3,100 BCE, Narmer unified Egypt after invading from his kingdom in Upper Egypt to conquer this neighboring region.
What is Lower Egypt?
This term describes "gaps" of time between the end of Egypt's Old Kingdom and beginning of its Middle Kingdom, and between the end of the Middle Kingdom and the beginning of its New Kingdom.
What are intermediary periods?
This word describes a period when the kingdom's rulers all come from the same family.
What is dynasty?
This king tried changing Egypt's religion from polytheism (worshipping many gods) to monotheism (worshipping just one god).
Who was Amenhotep IV
(Also accept the name Akhenaton)
Ancient Egyptians believed that these two gods were husband and wife, and that they ruled together over Land of the Dead.
Who were Osiris and Isis?
This social class was made up of Ancient Egyptians who were traders, artisans, shopkeepers, and scribes.
What is the middle class?
Around 540 BCE, the rulers of Kush moved their capital south from Napata to this this city.
What is Meroë?
King Khufu's Great Pyramid was built around 2500 BCE at this place, which now sits just outside Egypt's modern capital city of Cairo in the Nile Delta.
What is Giza?
This kingdom ended in about 350 CE when invaders destroyed its capital city of Meroë.
What is the Kingdom of Kush?
This kingdom developed in Nubia before the Kingdom of Kush.
What is Kerma?
Hatshepsut's father, half-brother (and husband), and stepson all were kings that had this same name.
What is Thutmose?
This word describes a government whose ruler is both the political leader and the religious leader.
What is theocracy?
This large group of people in ancient Egypt had more rights there than in other ancient civilizations. In ancient Egypt, these people could own property, buy and sell goods, and obtain divorces. Some of them even were priests and pharaohs.
Who were women?
This empire invaded Egypt around 670 BCE, causing the Kushites to retreat back south to Nubia.
Who are the Assyrians?
At the beginning of Egypt's Middle Kingdom, pharaohs moved the capital from Memphis to this city further south and upstream on the Nile River.
What is Thebes?
Around 1550 BCE this prince led an army to drive out the Hyksos invaders. He regained control of Egypt and became the first king of a new dynasty that started the New Kingdom.
Who was Ahmose?
At the end of Egypt's New Kingdom, this ruler had the most statues and temples honoring him.
Who was Ramses II?
These government officials acted as Pharaohs' representatives in traveling to other kingdoms and talking with leaders there.
What are envoys?
What is the name of Ancient Egypt's river god?
What is Hapi?
The Kush city of Meroë had lots of smoke stacks because that city's main industry was producing this material.
What is iron?
This kingdom's forces invaded Kush from eastern Africa along the Red Sea and destroyed the city of Meroë around 350 CE, ending the Kush empire.
What is Axum?
This was Kush's capital city until about 540 BCE, when the capital was moved south to Meroë.
What is Napata?
What ancient Egyptian ruler took over as pharaoh after Queen Hatshepsut died?
Who is Thutmose III
(or King Thutmose III)
What is the New Kingdom?
This engineer designed and built the first pyramids for Egyptian pharaohs.
Who was Imhotep?
When King Amenhotep IV tried changing Egypt's religion from polytheism to monotheism, he required Egyptian people to worship this new god.
What was Aton.
This word means woven fabric or cloth.
What is textiles (or textile)?
The Kush capital city of Meroë had many tall smoke stacks what were attached to these structures for making iron.
What are furnaces?
This word describes the landscape of grassy plains of Nubia, which was south of the Sahara Desert.
What is savanna?
Egyptian pharaohs first lost control of their empire to the "Black Pharaohs" who ruled from Kush, and then Egypt was conquered by this empire from Mesopotamia around 600 BCE.
What is Assyria
(also accept the answer Assyrian Empire or Assyrians)
These two Kushite kings were father and son, and they were the first to conquer Egypt and rule both Kush and Egypt around 750 BCE. They were the first of the "Black Pharaohs" of Egypt.
Who were Kashta and Piye?
Who were Ay and Horemheb?
This was the name of Ancient Egypt's god of learning.
What is Thoth?
One valuable product for trading in Ancient Egypt was this substance made of plant material that is burned to produce a pleasant smell.
What is incense?
Which Kushite king invaded the capital of Thebes in a conquest of Egypt that would be completed by his son Piye?
Who is Kashta?
During ancient Egypt's Middle Kingdom, a canal was built connecting which two large bodies of water?
What are the Red Sea and the Nile River?
Who is Ramses II?
During ancient Egypt's "Nubian Dynasty," the pharaohs were from this conquering kingdom.
What is Kush?
King Narmer of Upper Egypt conquered Lower Egypt around 3100 BCE, uniting the two kingdoms and becoming Egypt's first pharaoh. After that, he was known by this different name.
What is Menes?
To enter the afterlife, an ancient Egyptian's soul must pass the "Weighing of the Heart" test. The god Anubis uses a balance to test whether the person's heart is lighter than what other object?
What is a feather.
Like many families today, wealthy Egyptians lived as "nuclear families" in their homes. That term means a family that is made up of just these people.
What are parents and children?
Kush was one of the only kingdoms to successfully resist invasion by this powerful empire, eventually entering a peace treaty with them.
What is the Roman Empire?