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What a Greek historian called Egypt.
What is the Gift of the Nile?
A kingdom of Egypt lasted from 2700 to 2200 BC and began with the Third Dynasty.
What is the Old Kingdom?
A period of order and stability which lasted to about 1750 BC.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
The Egyptian Writing System
The first woman believed by historians to rule Kush.
Who is Queen Shanakhdakheto?
Things which covered most of the Nile's delta in Ancient Egypt.
What are swamps and marshes?
Someone who had complete power in Egypt and was both a king and a god.
What is a pharaoh?
Paths followed by traders.
What are trade routes?
The name of the person whose tomb was discovered in 1922.
What is Tutankhamun or King Tut?
System of people in different lands who trade goods.
What are trade networks?
A triangle-shaped area of land made from soil deposited by a river.
A government system where the priest rules in the name of God or a God.
What is a theocracy?
A person who fought the Hitties.
Who is Ramses the Great?
The writing tools ancient Egyptians used to write hieroglyphics.
What is a brush and ink?
Kashta’s son
Who is Piankhi?
A life-giving miracle for people in Ancient Egypt.
What is the floods of the Nile?
Specially treated bodies wrapped in cloth.
What are mummies?
She sent Egyptian traders south to trade with the kingdom of Punt on the Red Sea and north to trade with people in Asia Minor and Greece
Who is Queen Hatshepsut?
The two types of calendars Egyptians developed.
What are lunar and solar calendars?
later became a powerful state and adopted Christianity under King Ezana.
What is Aksum?
The founder of Egypt’s first dynasty.
Who is Menes?
Huge, stone tombs with four triangle-shaped sides that met in a point on top.
What are pyramids?
The period (kingdom) during which Egypt reached the height of its power and glory.
What is the New Kingdom?
A temple or temples that Ramses the Great built.
What is Abu Simbel or Luxor?
destroyed Meroë around AD 350 and established control over the entire Kushi territory.
What is Askum?