The study of the world's surfaces, landforms and the processes that shape them (for example, earthquakes or volcanoes).
What is geography?
100
He may have died of malaria, a broken leg and an infected
tooth.
Who was King Tut?
100
The world's longest river.
What is the Nile?
100
He had the Great Pyramid built in his honor.
Who was Khufu?
200
The part of Nubia that is closest to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Lower Nubia?
200
The name that the Egyptians gave to the rich, black fertile soil along the Nile.
What is kemet?
200
King Tut's dad and also the only monotheistic pharaoh.
Who was Akhenaton?
200
This kingdom became weak and divided due to fighting among communities. Therefore this kingdom eventually
faded out.
What is the Old Kingdom?
300
Practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
What is agriculture?
300
The peasants lived centered on the ____________ season.
What is the PLANTING season?
300
He had the Sphinx built to guard his tomb and also the
pyramid tombs of other pharaoh.
Who was Kafre?
300
The Nubians had much less land along the Nile for farming
than the Egyptians. Therefore, c. 5,000 BC they built communities that were NOT farming communities, but
that helped them survive.
What are hunting & fishing communities?
300
The Nubians dug iron ore from the ground and made iron weapons. As a result the Nubians could control trade and this city became rich because it was in the middle of trade routes.
What is Meroe?
400
When people cut down forest trees & foliage until the ground
is almost flat.
What is deforestation?
400
The reason that water flows from the Ethiopian Highlands.
What is snow melting on the mountains?
400
She ruled Egypt with her brains rather than with her fists.
She expanded Egypt's lands through trade, rather than conquest. She also started as a regent for Thutmose, but
later claimed the throne for herself. She died mysteriously.
Who was Hatshepsut?
400
4,160 miles
What is the length of the Nile River in miles?
400
The star which the Egyptian astronomers used to predict the floods AND to line up the pyramids correctly before building.
What is Sirius (the dog star)?
500
In some parts of the world, when so many trees are cut down, the land reverts (goes back to) being a desert.
What is desertificatoin?
500
The place where a river begins and the place where a river
pours out into the sea.
What is source and the mouth of a river?
500
This pharaoh ruled for 67 years and is considered one of He is considered one of the greatest pharaohs in Ancient Egypt's LONG history. He wrote the world's first peace treaty, made Egypt wealthy through promoting trade, and had many public works built to make life better for his people. (We saw his mummy in the Cairo Museum when we watched "Mr. Mummy")
Who was Ramses the Great?
500
The Egyptians found papyrus along the Nile and made paper.
They did this by....
What is flattening out the reeds, crisscrossing them and letting them dry?
500
Religion played an important part in Egyptian life because
it explained the afterlife AND _____________.