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Lydia Egypt
cards for egypt test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What two rivers make up the Nile River? | The Blue Nile and the White Nile. |
| What are cataracts? | Wild rapids. |
| Who were the earliest rulers? | Village Cheifs. |
| Who unified the two kingdoms? | Narmer.He had a double crown that was white and reaf to symbolize their unity. |
| WHo made up the largest class? | Farmers. |
| What are deities? | Gods. |
| Who was Hapi? | The goddess of the Nile. |
| Who was Isis? | The goddess of all women, and Osiris's wife. |
| Why did the Egyptians call their land Kemet? | Because when the rain came from Africa and snows melted the Nile's water ran over the banks. When the water went down, it left a rich black soil. |
| Why were the Nile floods good? | They were more dependable and gentle and they never had to worry about it being to harsh or too little. And their flooding left them with nice fertile soil. |
| What are three things Egyptians grew? | Flax, wheat, and barley. |
| What was the Egyptian method for transportation. | They dug basins in the ground to trap floodwaters, then they dug canals that carried the water to fields beyond the river's reach. |
| Why did they survey the land? | Because when floods came they washed away markers and they couldn't tell where one person's land began or ended. |
| Wha did they make before paper? | Baskets, riverrafts, and sandals |
| What were scribes? | Scribes were people who could read and write and carved hieroglyphics on stone walls and monuments. |
| What dud the Egyptian goverments do? | Built irigation systems, settled argruments over land. |
| How did it go from small villages to large kingdoms? | The chiefs joined together and the strongest one took over. |
| Who unified to two kingdoms? | Narmer, he wore a double crown that was red and white to symbolize them coming together. |
| How many dynasties were there? | 31 |
| Who made up the largest class? | Farmers. |
| How did the desert prtect their land? | They kept invaders from their territory. |
| How did cataracts protect them? | They blocked enemy boats. |
| How did delta marshes protect them? | They offered no harbors. |
| What are three possible jobs an unskilled laborer could have? | Unload cargo from ships, carry cargo to a market, make mud bricks. |
| What are 4 rights women had? | Own land, get divored, buy and sell goods, make wills. |
| What are the 4 steps of embalming? | 1. Take out the organs.2. cover the body in salt to dry3. Filled with spices and stichted close4. cleaned with oils and wrapped in linen |
| Each pryamid faced which direction? | North. |
| There are how many pryamids standing at Giza? | 3. |
| Where was the capital moved to by the crazy man? | Memphis. |
| Where was it moved back to? | Thebes. |
| Confusion and stability sepertaed the kingdom for how many years? | 200 |
| The middle kingdom was egypts _ age? | Golden |
| What are two types of art from the Golden Age? | Sculptures, wall paintings. |
| Where were the Hyksos from? | Asia |
| How were they able to defeat the Egyptians? | They crossed the desert in chariots and had weapons made of bronze and iron. |
| The hyksos ruled for how long? | 150 years. |
| Who was Ahmose? | An egyptian prince. |
| Who was the ruler of the New Kingdom? | Ahmose. |
| What rights did slaves have? | They could own land, marry, and eventually come free. |
| Why did Akhenaton move the capital? | To get away from the preists that didn't believe he was a god and to maintain his power? |
| Who performed rituals in the temples? | priests and Priestesses |
| Who was the last great pharaoh? | RamsesII |
| Ramses II was good at what? | Military stuff. |
| What are the three groups that conquered egypt? | Libyans, Kush, Assyrians |
| Where was Nubia? | south of Egypt. |
| WWhat were they good at? | Hunting and Farming. |
| What was Kerma? | A kingdom made up of strong Kushite villages. |
| Who invaded Kush? | Thutmose III |
| What was the Kushites main city? | Napata. |
| When and who began a conquest of Egypt? | In about 750 B.C Kashta began a conquest of Egypt and his son Piye completed it. |
| The Kush people did what like the Egyptians? | Built Pyramids. |
| The Kushites were defeated by who? | The Assyrians. |
| What did the assyrians teach the Kushites? | How to use iron. |
| Where did the Kushites invade people from? | India, Arabia, and China. |
| What did the Kush people bring back from Arabia, India, and China. | Cotton, textiles, and other goods. |
| Where did the Kushites move their capital to and why? | To meroe to escape from the Assyrians. |
| Who destroyed the Kush civilzation for good? | Axum. |