The Nile
Kingdoms
Religion and Mummification
Pyramids
Innovations
100
The triangular area at the northernmost point of The Nile.
What is the Nile Delta?
100
Hatshepsut becomes the first female Pharaoh during this kingdom
What is the New Kingdom?
100
these containers held the vital organs of mummified people.
What are canopic jars?
100
This Pharaoh was the first to envision the construction of a pyramid.
Who is King Djoser?
200
These two deserts provided construction resources for the Ancient Egyptians
What are the Arabian and Libyan deserts?
200
Literature flourishes during this kingdom.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
200
Giving gods human traits.
What is anthropomorphizing?
200
This was the first geometric pyramid.
What is the Red Pyramid?
200
This 'tool' was of great importance to the transportation of the stones that built the pyramids.
What is The Nile?
300
This plant was very common in the Nile Delta and was used for paper, boats, and sandals.
What is the Papyrus plant?
300
Egypt recruits its first standing army during this kingdom.
What is the middle kingdom?
300
This god was created after Thebes became the main city of Ancient Egypt and their local god fused with the former head of the pantheon.
Who is Amon-Re?
300
Pyramids evolved from these primitive burials sites that have been seen all around the ancient world
What are Burial Mounds?
300
Both ours and the Ancient Egyptian calendars were rooted in this.
What is food production?
400
The wind blew south and the Nile flowed north.
What are ways that made the Nile navigable?
400
Thebes becomes the main city of Ancient Egypt during this kingdom.
What is the New Kingdom?
400
The intimate and intensely personal relationship Ancient Egyptians believed they had with their deceased ancestors
What is ancestor worship?
400
Royal burials moved to this location because pyramids were being too easily robbed.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
400
Two ailments that the Ancient Egyptians had primitive cures for.
What are rheumatism, smallpox, kidney/gallstones.
500
This geographical point on the Nile was used to distinguish between Ancient Egypt and Nubia.
What is the first cataract?
500
Pharaohs are seen as living gods during this kingdom.
What is the Old Kingdom?
500
The collection of multiple gods in the Ancient Egyptian panthenon.
What is polytheism?
500
This pyramid would have been the largest.
What is the Bent Pyramid?
500
The construction of this ancient wonder of the world caused the rest of the Mediterranean world to move away from Papyrus and create different types of paper.
What is the Library of Alexandria?