Kush Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| A region of Africa that is south of Egypt? | Nubia |
| What similarities are there between Nubia and Egypt? | Egypt and Nubia were divided into an upper and lower half and people lived next to the Nile River. |
| Difference between Egypt and Nubia? | Nubia had a climate that provided greater moisture. |
| A powerful ancient kingdom of Nubia? | Kush |
| A Kushite king who defeated the Libyans, United Egypt and Kush, and became Pharaoh of Egypt. | Piankhi |
| How Nubia influenced Egypt? | Nubian monarchy (king) became the Egyptian Pharaoh. |
| How did Egypt influence Nubia? | art, architecture, gods, language, clothing, and pyramids |
| Capital of Kush during the first time period? | Napata |
| Capital of Kush during the second time period? | Meroe |
| Kushite ruler who fought against the Assyrians? | Taharqa |
| What was important about Meroe? | It had access to iron and gold. |
| Kingdom that developed on the Horn of Africa? | Aksum |
| Why was Aksum a good location? | It had access to trade to the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean, and Nile River. |
| A city on the Red Sea and was a main trading port of Aksum? | Adulis |
| King of Aksum who made Christianity the official religion? | Ezana |
| What were three achievements of the kingdom of Aksum? | Terraced farming, Pillars, and written language Ge'ez |
| What makes up 40% of the African continent? | savannahs |
| Early iron producing culture of West Africa | Nok |
| Early culture of west Africa that eventually migrated to Central and Southern Africa? | Bantu |
| Savannah | flat, grassy, treeless plains |
| griot | storyteller |
| desertification | expansion of dry desertlike conditions into fertile areas. |
| The migration that took thousands of years? | Bantu migration |
| How the Bantu and Nok cultures were different? | Bantu used iron for farming and the Nok used iron for tools they traded |
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