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The Nile
Egypt
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Architecture
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Egypt is located on this continent
What is Africa
100
Flooding impacted the Nile in this way
What are floods were welcomed and created fertile soil
100
Lower Egypt was given its name because of this
It is located in the lower part of the river
100
Egyptians believe in this type of religion
What is polytheistic
100
The most well known Egyptian architecture
What are pyramids
200
Egypt is located in these two hemispheres
What are the northern and eastern hemispheres
200
The Nile River flows this direction
What is North
200
Upper Egypt is located...
At the southern end of the Nile
200
Why were Egyptian tombs filled with treasures?
They believed they would need these things in the afterlife.
200
The most well known architecture in Mesopotamia
What are ziggurats
300
This geographical feature was the most important to all early civilizations
What are rivers
300
The Nile River flows the direction that it does because...
It flows from higher elevation to lower elevation (sea level)
300
These people could write in Ancient Egypt
Who are scribes
300
This processes are used when pharaohs are buried
What are embalming and mummification
300
The Washington Monument is modeled after this type of Egyptian Architecture
What are obelisks
400
These natural features of the Nile River Valley served as natural defenses
What are deserts, cataracts, and the delta
400
Farmers irrigated their crops these two ways
What is by using basins and shadufs
400
The name of Ancient Egyptian Writing
What is hieroglyphics
400
Egypt's government and religion were related because...
The pharaoh was the head of government, but also considered a god
400
Mount Rushmore is modeled after this in Ancient Egypt
What is Ramses Temple at Abu Simbel
500
The Nile provided these things to the people of Egypt
What is food, water, transportation, and defense
500
Mesopotamia's floods were different from the floods in Egypt because...
Mesopotamia's floods were feared and unpredictable
500
The pharaoh kept records of trade because...
The pharaoh taxed people based on what they had
500
Egypt traded with these places
What is Greece, Crete, Rhodes and Cyprus
500
Ancient Egyptians were able to construct the pyramids through this
Ancient Egyptians believed it was their civic duty to help construct pyramids