Geography of Ancient Egypt
Land of the Pharaohs
Egypt and Kush
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
Grab Bag
100
Egyptians used these methods to get water from the Nile. (Name at least three)
What are basins, dikes, canals, dirt walls, and a shadouf?
100
Egypt's top ruler.
What is a pharaoh?
100
This kingdom was rich in gold mines and trading networks.
What was Nubia?
100
These are the ways Egypt became a powerful empire.
What is through war, trade, and technology?
100
Ancient Egyptian writing system made up of about 800 picture-signs.
What is hieroglyphics?
200
This river played an important role in the development of the Egyptian civilization?
What is the Nile River?
200
The king in Lower Egypt wore this color crown.
What is a red crown?
200
These people came from the Fertile Crescent and moved into Lower Egypt. They used new technology to challenge the pharaoh and ruled there for 100 years.
Who were the Hyksos?
200
The practice of one person owning another person.
What is slavery?
200
A reed plant grown along the Nile; also a kind of paper.
What is papyrus?
300
Very fertile fan-shaped land made of silt. It is left behind when a river drains into a larger body of water.
What is a delta?
300
He was Egypt's first pharaoh. He united Upper and Lower Egypt and wore a double crown.
Who was Menes?
300
This pharaoh went on a two year expedition to trade with neighbors in Punt. She was one of Egypt's few female rulers.
Who was Hatshepsut?
300
Diagram that shows how Egyptian society is shaped.
What is the social pyramid?
300
The way a country manages their money and resources for the production of goods and services.
What is economy?
400
A unit of measure on a map.
What is a scale?
400
This pharaoh had the Great Pyramid built for his tomb.
Who was Khufu?
400
This pharaoh became king at the age of nine and ruled until the age of 19.
Who was Tutankhamun? (King Tut)
400
The levels of the social pyramid.
What are the top level was the pharaoh, the second level were the government officials, the third level were soldiers, the fourth level were the scribes, the fifth level were the merchants, the sixth level were the artisans, and the bottom levels were the peasants, farmers, and enslaved people?
400
A group of people who go on a trip for a set reason.
What is an expedition?
500
The Nile River provided the Egyptians with these important resources.
What were water, silt, and transportation?
500
The joining of separate parts into one.
What is unification?
500
This pharaoh defeated the Hyksos and won back their land.
Who was Ahmose?
500
Jobs performed by the Egyptian farmers. (Name at least three)
What were preparing the soil, using a shadouf to take water to the fields, building canals, building temples/tombs, and harvesting their crops?
500
These three skills have been passed down from the Egyptians.
What are mathematics, medicine, and astronomy?