Egypts Ruling Families, Social Classes, and Family Life
100
wild rapids that kept large ships confined to the last 650 miles of the Nile River
What is cataracts
100
Between 6000 B.C. and 5000 B.C. hunters and gatherers moved into the _____________________from less fertile areas of Africa and Southwest Asia.
What is the Nile River Valley.
100
The Nile floods were much more __________________and ______________than the floods in Mesopotamia.
What is dependable and gentle.
100
A system of writing, with hundreds of picture symbols which stood for objects and ideas, developed by the Ancient Egyptians.
What is hieroglyphics.
100
Historians group Egypt's dynasties into three main time periods called kingdoms. The earlies period was known as the __________________, followed by the _____________________ and then the _____________________.
What is Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom.
200
A reed plant that grew along the shores of the Nile used to make baskets, sandals, river rafts and paper.
What is papyrus
200
Although Egypt was warm and sunny, the land received little rainfall. For water the Egyptians had to rely on the ______________________.
What is the Nile River.
200
From the months of _____________to ________________heavy rains from central Africa and snow from the highlands of east Africa added to the water of the Nile which caused it to spill over its banks and flood.
What is July to October.
200
Scibes painstakingly carved hieroglypics onto ________________ and _________________ for everyday purposes.
What is stone walls and monuments.
200
The social groups in Ancient Egypt were represented by a pyramid. Who was on the top of the pyramid?
Who are pharaohs.
300
A line of rulers from one family.
What is dynasty
300
The people used the Nile river for such things as ______________, _____________, _____________,
What is farming, cooking, cleaning, fishing, drinking, and supporting animals.
300
When the waters went down, they left a layer of darkk, fertile mud. Because of these deposits, the Egyptians called their land _______________which means "the black land."
What is Kemet
300
Governments directed the following activities ___________________, ____________________, and ________________.
maintaining irrigation systems, storing grain, passing out grain in times of need, settling disputes over land
300
In Egypt women had more rights that females in most other early civilizations. What were the rights of women in ancient Egypt. (4 things)
What is women could own or pass on property, buy and sell goods, make wills, obtain divorces. (Upper class women could aslo be in charge of temples and could perform religious ceremonies.)
400
Also known as Menes this king of Upper Egypt combined Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom and wore a crown to symbolize the kingdom's unity.
Who is Narmer
400
The Nile began as two seperate rivers the _______________and the _________________.
What are the Blue Nile and the White Nile.
400
The Egyptian took advantage of the Nile's floods to become successful________________.
What is farmers.
400
In Ancient Egypt few people could ___________and _______________.
What is read and write.
400
One difference between Mesopotamia and Egypt is
______________________________.
What is their
-natural defenses (Mesopoatamia few/ Egypt Many)
-floods (Mesopotamia unpredictable and a threat/ Egypt predictable and regular)
government rulers (Mesopotamia kings and priests/ chiefs and pharaohs)
-rivers (Mesopotamia Tigris and Euphrates/ Egypt Nile River)
-Writing system (Mesopotamia Cuneiform/Egypt Hieroglyphics)
-Number System (Mesopotamia/ based on 60/ Egypt Based on 10)
-Advances (Mesopotamia wagon wheel, plow, sailboat/ Egypt medicine and first medical books)
-calander (Mesopotamia 12 months/ Egypt 365 days)
calander
500
The largest desert region in the world in Northern Africa.
What is the Sahara
500
Egypt has natural barriers that discouraged invasions. These natural barriers are ______________, ______________, and _____________.
What are deserts, cataracts and delta marshes.
500
The reasons for the Egyptian's success in farming was their use of irrigation. Some of their forms of irrigation were _______________, ________________, _____________and ______________
What are basins, canals, dikes, and shadoofs.
500
The advances in ______________, _______________ and ________________ created a need for government in Egypt.
What is farming, crafts and trade.
500
In ancient Egypt mothers taught their daughters to _________, _____________ and ________________. Boys learned_____________or __________________from their fathers.
Girls: What is sew, cook and run a household.
Boys: farming and a skilled trade.