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Ancient Egypt And Nubia Flashcards

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Which is the world’s longest river?

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The Nile River is the world’s longest river.

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What is a cataract?

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A cataract is a group of rocky rapids.

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What is the region upstream from the Mediterranean?

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The region upstream from the Mediterranean is upper Egypt.

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Define delta

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A delta is an area of sediment-soil or minerals carried by water-deposited at the mouth of a river.

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What is the Red Land?

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The Red Land includes the deserts that lay on either side of the Black Land. The Red Land was a deadly place of hot, burning sands.

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How could the soil of the Nile River Valley be best characterized?

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The soil of the Nile River Valley is best characterized as fertile.

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How were Egyptian farmers able to produce enough food to create a surplus?

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Egyptian farmers learned to build earthen walls around fields to trap the Nile’s flood waters.

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Define Artisans

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Artisans are skilled workers who practice a handicraft

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Who united the kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt?

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The kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt were United by Menes/Narmer.

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Define Pharoah

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A pharaoh is a king of a united Egypt

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What is a dynasty?

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A dynasty is a ruling family.

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What does Environmental mean?

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Environmental is having to do with natural surroundings.

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In what order did the kingdoms arise?

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The kingdoms arose with the old kingdom first, then the middle kingdom, and finally the new kingdom.

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What is a bureaucracy?

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A bureaucracy is a system of offices and officials that handle the business of government.

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Who were the two great rulers who shaped Egyptian history?

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Hatshepsut and Ramses II were two great pharaohs that shaped Egyptian history.

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What does devotion mean?

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Devotion is a strong feeling of love, loyalty, or commitment.

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Define Mummy

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A mummy is a body preserved by a special process.

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How did Egyptians prepare for the afterlife?

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To prepare for the afterlife Egyptian lived a good life to ensure that they would have an afterlife. Then they had their bodies preserved after death so that their mummy would have a home during the afterlife.

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What are hieroglyphics?

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Hieroglyphics are drawing or symbols that represent a word or a sound.

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What were scribes and why were they important?

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Scribes were officials who knew how to write and were valued for their knowledge. Scribes allowed Egyptians to share and preserve knowledge.

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Define Papyrus

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Papyrus was a material very similar to paper. It was made from the reed that grew along the Nile River.

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Why was papyrus a great improvement over the clay tablet?

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Papyrus was easier to carry, took up less storage space and didn’t take as long to make.

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What was an important quality of papyrus?

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An important quality of papyrus was that it could last a very long time in the dry environment of Egypt. This allowed many Egyptian literature written on papyrus to survive over time.

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What does survive?

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Survive is to continue to live, continue to exist.

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What is a pyramid?

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A pyramid is a structure with triangular sides.

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What was the purpose of tomb paintings?

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Tomb paintings were created to provide the_________

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Define Sculpture

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Sculpture is a _____

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Describe the Egyptian Solar calendar

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The Egyptian ____ calendar had ___days.

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What did the Egyptians use to help them predict when the Nile would flood?

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The Egyptians watched for the bright_____

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What does construct mean?

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Construct means to____ or put____

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Define anatomy

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Anatomy is the ___ of the structure of the ___ and its ___

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How did Egyptians learn so much about anatomy?

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Egyptians learned so much about ___ from their work with ___-

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What is commerce

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The buying and selling of goods

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Why did Egypt need to trade with other countries

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Because they needed to get goods they could not produce itself.

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What is ivory

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A hard white material made from elephant tusks

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Rely

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To depend,trust

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Why would Egypt and Nubia be willing to depend on the other’s trade goods

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They each had resources the other could not produce themselves, so they were willing to become interdependent.

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What effect did the continued trading with Egypt have on nubian culture

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The Nubian adopted many elements of egyptian culture, including religion.

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Generate

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to produce, create

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What was the result of nubia having less land to farm than the Egyptians had

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They were short of food, This made the nubians eager to trade with Egyptians

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After which Pharaoh’s rule did the New kingdom grow weak

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The rule of Ramses II

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Why did nubia’s control of egypt end

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Nubia’s control of Egypt ended because Nubia went to war with assyria which defeated them and drove them out of egypt.

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Meroitic script

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One of the world’s first alphabets created by the nubians

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Ebony

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A black wood from west africa

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What aspects of culture did nubia take from egypt

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The nubians took the gods and the use of pyramids from egyptian culture

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