10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt VocabularyGeographyLifeRulersPotpourri

Triangle shaped area at the mouth of a river

What is a delta?

A rock filled rapid in a river

What is a cataract?

Someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule

What is a regent?

Reedlike plants used as a type of paper

What is papyrus?

Skilled worker

What is an artisan?

The location of the earliest communities in the Nile River Valley

What is the delta of Lower Egypt?

What created rich farmland in the river valley?

What is the Nile River?

Nubia’s location allowed for this to occur

What is to become a center of trade?

The reason astronomers studied the stars

What is to predict the flooding of the Nile?

The direction the Nile River flows

What is south to north?

This explained natural events to people

What is religion?

The largest social class

What is workers & farmers?

This was an important religious practice, from which we have remains to study today

What is to prepare the dead for the afterlife (mummification)?

This greatly influenced the lives of the peasants

What are the planting seasons?

Egyptians used this to track wealth

What are hieroglyphics?

These individuals had absolute power over all Egyptians

Who are the pharaohs?

The result of the first 6 dynasties

What is a bigger and more prosperous Egypt?

One of the greatest achievements of Pharaoh Menes

What is uniting Upper & Lower Egypt?

The way in which rulers controlled Egypt

What is through absolute power?

This was extended by the pharaohs of the New Dynasty

What is Egyptian power?

The way Meroe became rich

What is Nubians taking control of trade routes using iron weapons?

The way belief in the afterlife was shown

What is preserving the dead?

A triangular shaped building in which Egyptian rulers were often buried

What is a pyramid?

Rich, fertile soil deposited by the flooding of a river

What is silt?

A family of rulers

What is a dynasty?

Final Jeopardy: Essay Questions

You will choose 2 of the 4 essay questions on the test. You will also complete a society pyramid (not optional)