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How many years ago was the new way of living on the Nile

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5000 years

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Where did the ppl come from when they went to Egypt

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The Middle East and central Africa

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3
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What did most ppl farm

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Wheat and barley

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4
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What did the river leave behind when it flooded

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Silt

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5
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Where is lower Egypt

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In northern Egypt and in the Nile delta near med sea

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6
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Why is it called lower Egypt

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End of river low elevation

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7
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Why is it called upper Egypt

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High elevations and mountains

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8
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Where is upper Egypt

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Southern and central Egypt

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9
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Was Egypt once 2 different kingdoms

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Yes

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10
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Who joined the 2 kingdoms into 1

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Menes

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11
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Who led the kingdoms

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Pharaohs

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12
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Where is the Nile river located

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North Eastern Africa in Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia

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13
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How long was the Nile

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4000 miles longest river

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14
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What was surrounding the Nile

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Deserts

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15
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How many cataracts are on the Nile

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6

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16
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What are cataracts

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A series of rapids

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17
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What is the Nile delta

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Where the rivers branches and empties into the Med sea

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18
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How did the Egyptians depend on the river

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Irrigation 
Food 
Drinking water 
Transportation and trade
Bathing 
Jobs 
papyrus
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19
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What did the pharaohs have and do

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Had absolutely power 
Made all laws 
Answered to no one 
Considered a god or child of good 
Had great tombs built for afterlife
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20
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How many pharaohs were ther for the 31 dynasty’s

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Over 300

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21
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How many people did the pharaoh lead

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5 mil Egyptians

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22
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What is the chief advisor to the pharaoh called

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Visor 2nd most powerful man

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23
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What did the visor do

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Decided what was important to they’ll the pharaoh and was in charge of nomads and who collected taxes and solved smaller notes

24
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Who were scribes

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Well respected usually sons of wealthy families

25
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Who were soldiers

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Protected Egypt in times of war but went back to regular time in peace

26
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What were soldiers paid

A

Food

27
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What were artisans

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Employed by the upper class and created most treasures found today

28
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What were merchants

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People who traded within Egypt and other countries

29
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Who were peasant farmers and workers

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Poor farmers who were paid very little and would work for gov’t buildings when in the offseason

30
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What are servants and slaves

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Often foreigners servamts worked in households or fields for every little money salves were often pows

31
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When was the period when the pyramids were built

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The old kingdom

32
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Why were pyramids stop being built

A

Expensive

Frequently robbed

33
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Achievements of the old kingdom

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Capital Memphis

Pharaohs organized irrigation

34
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Famous pharaohs of old kingdom

A

Sneferu
Kufu (Cheops)
Teti

35
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When was Egypt golden age

A

The Middle Kingdom

36
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What period did hidden construction begin

A

Middle Kingdom

37
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Did nomarchs and the army become more powerful in the Middle Kingdom

A

Yes

38
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Achievements of Middle Kingdom

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Capital moved to Thebes

Use of chariots began

39
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Famous pharaohs of Middle Kingdom

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Montuhotep

Amenehet

40
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What Kingdom had the time of great expansion Egypts most prosperous and powerful time

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The new kingdom

41
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Achievements of the new kingdom

A

Egypt expanded south to Nubia/ kush

Valley of the kings

42
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Famous pharaohs of the new kingdom

A

Hatshepsut (promoted trade)
Nerertiti
Ramses ii
Cleopatra (last pharaoh)

43
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Was religion extremely important

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Yes

44
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Were the Egyptians polytheistic

A

Yes

45
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Were all gods important and no one god was more powerful than the others

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Yes

46
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Did many gods have body’s of humans but heads of animals

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Yes

47
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Who were some of the more important gods

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Ra sun god
Osiris god of underworld
Anubis god of mummification
Hapi goddess of the Nile

48
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Did the Egyptians believe that with proper preparation the soul could live again in the underworld

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Yes

49
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Would the body be carefully mummified

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Yes

50
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What would Anubis do when they got to the underworld

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Measured the heart against a feather

51
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What would happen if the heart didn’t balance

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They would get eaten by a crocodile hippo or a lion

52
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What was the ancient Egyptian writing called

A

Hieroglyphics

53
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What was hieroglyphics made of

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Symbols and pictures

54
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Do some symbols stand for sound words or letters

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Yes

55
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What did they use to write on

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Clay or stone at first

Then papyrus

56
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No one new the meaning of hieroglyphics from 400 to 1799 because of what

A

Rosetta Stone

57
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What was something Egypt was famous for

A

Massive architecture

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