Geography
This natural event created the “Black Land” by leaving behind fertile soil.
What is the Nile’s yearly flood?
This person sat at the top of Egypt’s social pyramid.
Who is the pharaoh?
Egyptians practiced this type of religion, meaning they worshipped many gods.
What is polytheism?
Egypt traded grain, cloth, and papyrus for cedar wood from this region.
What is Lebanon?
This was the main reason Egypt traded with other civilizations—they needed resources they did not have at home.
What are natural resources?
This physical feature acted as a southern natural barrier that prevented ships from traveling upstream.
What are the cataracts?
This government official oversaw the bureaucracy and helped the pharaoh rule.
Who is the vizier?
These religious leaders advised the pharaoh and helped maintain traditions.
Who are priests?
Kush supplied Egypt with this precious yellow metal.
What is gold?
Ancient Egypt used both conflict and this strategy to maintain peace with neighbors.
What is diplomacy?
This geographic feature surrounded the Nile River Valley and protected Egypt from invasion.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Farmers paid taxes with this type of resource.
What are surplus crops?
Egyptians preserved the dead in this form so that their soul could have an afterlife.
What is a mummy?
Egypt lacked forests, minerals, and horses, which led them to rely on this practice.
What is trade?
This geographic challenge led Middle Kingdom pharaohs to build canals.
What are dangerous Nile floods?
This problem occurred when the Nile carried too little water.
What is a drought?
This system placed rulers from the same family into power over many generations.
What is a dynasty?
Egyptians believed preserving the body after death was important so a person could reach this.
What is the afterlife?
Pharaohs strengthened relationships by signing these agreements with former enemies.
What are treaties?
Egypt interacted with other civilizations to gain resources, protect borders, and strengthen their empire—this was the most significant impact of…
What are interactions with other civilizations?
Farmers built these structures to trap floodwaters and soak their fields, creating a surplus.
What are irrigation walls?
This is the reason Egyptians feared disobeying the pharaoh or his officials.
What is they believed he was a god on Earth?
Egyptians believed this had to reconnect with its body in order for someone to live in the afterlife.
What is the soul?
Egypt, Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia formed the world’s first version of this network by exchanging luxury goods and diplomats.
What is a trading community?
These two factors most influenced Egypt’s economic interactions with other civilizations.
What are Egypt’s lack of natural resources and its abundance of goods to trade?