According to an old story, what united the Upper and Lower Kingdoms?
What is Menes?
100
This was the capitol of the Middle Kingdom.
What is Thebes?
100
The New Kingdom began at this time.
What is 1600 B.C.
100
This reed was used to make paper.
What is papyrus?
200
An area of fertile land at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
200
Most Egyptians in the Old Kingdom did this type of work.
What is farm?
200
This marked the beginning of the Middle Kingdom.
What is a new dynasty in 2040 B.C.?
200
These people ruled the New Kingdom.
What is the pharaohs?
200
The scrolls contained this information.
What is medicinal information like how to check for a heartbeat and how to deal with fevers or accidents.
300
The direction (N,S,E,W) that the Nile flows.
What is north?
300
The Old Kingdom began around this date
What is 3100 B.C.
300
The people of the Middle Kingdom believed their pharaohs were _______ but they did not have complete________ unlike the pharaohs of the Old Kingdom.
What is Gods, power.
300
She was the first woman pharaoh and she accomplished this.
What is Hatshepsut? What is expand Egypt and expand trading?
300
This is the term of measurement the Egyptians used to measure length.
What is a cubit?
400
The Nile River helps farmers in this way.
What is irrigating the land and depositing silt which is rich in minerals and promotes food production.
400
This was Menes symbol for the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt.
What is the double crown?
400
The Middle Kingdom pharaohs did this with the swamps and canals and they did it for this reason.
What is they drained the swamps into a basin making more farmable land available without losing access to the water?
400
This was the name of the ruler after Hatshepsut and these were his accomplishments.
What is Thutmose III? What is spreading Egypt's influence to far reaching places. He won victories in Asia and built an Army.
400
This could be a problem with measuring something in cubits.
What is not everyone's arm is the same length? Measurements will vary.
500
The Nile river unified Egypt in this way.
What is it allowed for trade and commerce (business) to grow along its banks. People used the Nile as a highway- traveling North with the current and South with sails.
500
The Egyptians of the Old Kingdom built these to these to bury there dead within.
What is tombs?
500
The Hyskos people were able to conquer Egypt because of these reasons.
What is they were skilled at war and had bronze weapons, horse drawn chariots and armor.
500
Egypt lost its power because of this reason.
What is the people were no longer allowed to worship one God under Ikhnaton's rule. The people rebelled and won.
500
Pyramids were built like this.
What is they were built of stone with no modern tools-20,000 men, 20 yrs.- make mud bricks for inside the temple- give other examples.