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Unit 2 Egypt/ Nubia
Questions to review for Unit 2 test
Question | Answer |
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A result of the annual flood in the Nile Valley | New silt made the soil more fertile |
River the ancient Egyptians called "giver of life" | Nile River |
A way for the Egyptians to keep track of the flooding of the Nile | developed a calendar |
Three parts of the Egyptian calandar | Inundation, Emergence, and Harvest |
Important reason for uniting Upper and Lower Egypt | Created the first nation-state |
Has all the power and authority in the government in Egypt | Pharaohs |
Combination of two Egyptian gods | Amon-Re |
Egyptian leader that wanted the people to worship only the god Aton | Amenhotep IV |
Egyptians were conquered by these people | Kush |
Nubians were among the first people develop this product | pottery to store grain and carry supplies |
Reason why Egyptians destroyed Kush's capital Kerma | punish the people for helping Hyksos |
Kushites learned to make iron from what people | Assyrians |
Merchants in Meroe traded this product | Iron |
The result of the Greeks building new ports on the Red Sea | end of Meroe being an important trade center |
Things achieved with Egyptian technology | Pyramids, the sphinx, canals, dikes, paprus |
Things achieved with Nubian technology | Pottery, iron making, iron products |
Things achieved with Sumerian technology | irrigation, ditches, canals, dams, dikes, reservoirs, ziggurats |
Influence between Egypt and Nubia | Religion, culture, government, place of staying, Gods, way of ruling, trading. |