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Vocabulary
All About Egypt
Nubia and Meroe
Mixed
100
What word means the buying and selling of gods and services? (106)
Commerce
100
What brought Egypt and Nubia together? (106)
Trade
100
Which city received more rain than Nubia? (110)
Meroë
100
For how many months did Hermopolis hold out against Piye’s army? (109)
Five
200
What is an expedition? (107)
A journey or trip taken for a special purpose
200
Who broke away from Egypt and later conquered and ruled Egypt? (109)
Kush
200
What do historians believe is the main reason why Nubia moved their capital to Meroë? (110)
Because there were iron ore deposits located near Meroë.
200
In what year did the Egyptian King conquer the town of Thebes? (109)
In the mid-700s B.C.
300
What word refers to a large and indefinite part of Earth; district? (108)
Region
300
Who is Piye? (109)
A ruler who expanded the Kushite empire by conquering one Egyptian city after another
300
For how many years did Meroë thrive as a center of trade and culture? (110)
900 years
300
What did they build to honor Nubian and Egyptian gods? (109)
Temples
400
What is the meaning of expand? (109)
To become or make larger in size or scope
400
Who started trade between Egypt and it’s neighbor to the south? (108)
Snerfu
400
Who turned Meroë into Africa”s first ironworking center? (110)
The Nubians
400
What did Nubian traders supply Egypt with? (108)
Animal skins, ivory, ostrich feathers and beautiful woods from the African interior
500
What made life enjoyable in some ways? (107)
Luxury goods
500
Snefru sent a trading expedition up the Nile into Nubia, and returned how many slaves and how many cattle? (108)
7,000 slaves and 200,000 head of cattle
500
Iron tools made much stronger weapons than what other type of mineral? (110)
Bronze
500
How long did Pharaohs rule Egypt? (109)
For almost a century