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Unit 2 Egypt/ Nubia
Questions to review for Unit 2 test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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. |