An opportunity for some people to work as artisans instead of farming.
What is a surplus of food?
100
Theocracy
What is a pharaoh who was both the political and religious leader?
100
A Golden Age in Egypt
What is The Middle Kingdom?
100
Savanna
What is a grassy plain called?
200
papyrus
What is a reed plant used to make paper?
200
A dynasty
What is power passed from father to son to grandson
200
Embalming
What is the process used to protect the body after death?
200
Hatshepsut
Who was the female pharaoh?
200
Gold, ivory, cattle, giraffes, leopards, and enslaved people.
What did Egypt trade in the time of the Nubian rule?
300
surrounded by deserts, a delta, and mountains
What is the geography of ancient egypt?
300
Cataracts
What is a place where rapids form as two rivers meet: the White Nile and the Blue Nile.
300
Astronomy, geometry/mathematics, a sustem of written numbers, fractions.
What are some of the Egyptian achievements?
300
Sculptors created large carvings of pharaohs.
Arts and architecture grew more popular
Painters covered tombs and temples with colorful scenes
Pharaohs had their tombs cut into cliffs
What are the uses of wealth during the Golden Age.
300
What the Kushites gained from the Assyrians.
What is making iron?
400
Flooding of the Nile.
What made the soil of Egypt fertile for farming?
400
Irrigation systems needed to be built and maintained, Grain had to be stored. Disputes over land needed to be settled.
What is the need to form a government?
400
They controlled nature
What did the gods and goddesses do that Egyptians worshiped?
400
Envoys
What is a representative of a ruler to other rulers
400
It is what the Libyans, the people of Kush, and the Assyrians, from Mesopotamia, did to Egypt.
What are some of the groups of people that took over Egypt?
500
To unify Egypt
To lead during good times and bad times
To hire officials
To give orders
To participate in religious ceremonies
What are the duties of a Pharaoh?
500
Better tools, stronger armies, seeking more land, wealth and power