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Egypt 1
World History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The cause of flooding lead to what effect in Egypt? | Rich soil |
| The cause of floods happening the same each year lead to what effect? | the farmers could predict their crops. |
| the cause of the desert stretching beyond the nile lead to what effects? | *Egypians lived on the land near the nile *it protected egyptians from evaders |
| the cause of many land resources lead to what effects? | Economic activities developed |
| the cause of the nile providing more goods than the egyptians needed lead to what effect? | trade and bartering |
| name three benefits the nile river gave the Egyptians? | *water for farming *Transportation *mud for bricks to build homes |
| What was called the gift of the nile? | Egypt |
| to ways egyptian farmers stored water for later use. | irrigation canals and catch basins |
| what tool allowed egyptian formers to move and use water efficiently? | shadoof |
| what fabric was woven from flax plants? | lenen |
| what was the precious stone that the egyptians where the first to mine. | turquoise |
| what is in the south part of the medc sea? | cataract(water falls) |
| where was kush located? | south east of egypt in modern day Sudan |
| what was kush called | nubia |
| what did the kushites discover in the deserts | gold |
| kush was a vital trade center between where | egypt and central africa |
| the pharaohs sent ships to kush to buy | gold iron leather or cattle |
| what did the Egyptians bring to trade | beer, linen and grain |
| who took control of Egypt in 750 B.C.E. | Piye conquered and controlled Egypt |
| the new location became vital for whom | traders |
| after the Kushites left Egypt how were they still strongly influenced by Egyptian culture | they continued to build great palaces, temples and pyramids and created their own hieroglyphic writing system |
| what did the Egyptians believe happened after death | an after-life if you were mummified |
| what was the process the Egyptians used to stop the body from decaying | imbalming |
| why did Egyptians hide their temples in secret locations | to prevent people from stealing their treasures |
| true or false, Egyptians believed in and worshiped many gods | true |
| what three things did scribes do | helped administer laws, collect taxes and supervise government projects |
| was the Pharoah thought of as a god | yes |
| what was the Old Kingdom | the age of the pyramids |
| what was the Middle Kingdom | period of reunification |
| what was the New Kingdom | the Golden Age |
| how were Akhenaten's religious beliefs different from the people he ruled | he worshipped one God(Aten) while others worshipped more than one god |