1. 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt Nile geography Nile vocabulary Nile Civilizations Egypt’s rulers Egypt’s kingdoms

2. Name the longest river in the world

3. What is the Nile?

4. The Nile River flows in this direction toward the Mediterranean Sea

5. What is north?

6. Name the city where the Blue Nile and the White Nile meet

7. What is Khartoum?

8. Name the civilization located between the first and second cataract

9. What is lower Nubia?

10. Name the civilization located between the second and sixth cataract

11. What is Upper Nubia?

12. The rich, fertile soil deposited by the flooding of a river is called this

13. What is silt?

14. What do we call the rock-filled rapids of a river?

15. What are cataracts?

16. What is a triangle-shaped area of rich farmland near the mouth of a river?

17. What is delta?

18. The desert beyond the fertile river banks is called

19. What is the red land?

20. The dark soil left by the Nile’s floods is called

21. What is the black land or Kemet?

22. This enabled Egyptian trade

23. What is the Nile?

24. Who traded on land routes through the Nile Valley

25. Who were the Nubians?

26. The year communities began to appear in lower Egypt

27. What is 4000 BC?

28. This Greek historian called Egypt “the gift of the Nile”

29. Who was Herodotus?

30. Name an item traded by the Nubians

31. What is ebony wood, elephant tusks, ostrich feathers and eggs, panther skins, or a “throw-stick” ?

32. Respected title of an Egyptian king

33. What is pharaoh?

34. A family of rulers

35. What is a dynasty?

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

37. What is a regent?

38. Stepmother of Thutmose III, who ruled Egypt for about 22 years

39. Who was Hatshepsut?

40. He began the first dynasty, united Upper and Lower Egypt and built the city of Memphis

41. Who was Menes?

42. One of the greatest rulers of The New Kingdom. He studied plants and led his armies into battles

43. Who was Thutmose III?

44. He conquered ancient Egypt in 332 BC

45. Who was Alexander the Great?

46. time period when order was restored and irrigation projects and canals built

47. What was the Middle Kingdom?

48. large armies were developed at this time

49. What was the New Kingdom?

50. Time period when Egypt had good rulers and a well-run government

51. What was the Old Kingdom?