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Nile geography
Nile vocabulary
Nile Civilizations
Egypts rulers
Egypts kingdoms
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Name the longest river in the world
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What is the Nile?
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The Nile River flows in this direction
toward the Mediterranean Sea
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What is north?
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Name the city where the Blue Nile and the White
Nile meet
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What is Khartoum?
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Name the civilization located between the
first and second cataract
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What is lower Nubia?
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Name the civilization located between the
second and sixth cataract
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What is Upper Nubia?
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The rich, fertile soil deposited by the flooding
of a river is called this
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What is silt?
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What do we call the rock-filled rapids of a
river?
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What are cataracts?
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What is a triangle-shaped area of rich farmland
near the mouth of a river?
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What is delta?
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The desert beyond the fertile river banks is
called
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What is the red land?
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The dark soil left by the Niles floods is
called
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What is the black land or Kemet?
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This enabled Egyptian trade
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What is the Nile?
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Who traded on land routes through the Nile Valley
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Who were the Nubians?
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The year communities began to appear in
lower Egypt
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What is 4000 BC?
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This Greek historian called Egypt the gift of
the Nile
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Who was Herodotus?
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Name an item traded by the Nubians
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What is ebony wood, elephant tusks,
ostrich feathers and eggs, panther skins, or a
throw-stick ?
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Respected title of an Egyptian king
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What is pharaoh?
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A family of rulers
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What is a dynasty?
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Someone who rules for a child until the child is
old enough to rule
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What is a regent?
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Stepmother of Thutmose III, who ruled Egypt
for about 22 years
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Who was Hatshepsut?
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He began the first dynasty, united Upper and
Lower Egypt and built the city of Memphis
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Who was Menes?
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One of the greatest rulers of The New Kingdom.
He studied plants and led his armies into
battles
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Who was Thutmose III?
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He conquered ancient Egypt in 332 BC
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Who was Alexander the Great?
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time period when order was restored and
irrigation projects and canals built
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What was the Middle Kingdom?
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large armies were developed at this time
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What was the New Kingdom?
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Time period when Egypt had good rulers and a
well-run government
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What was the Old Kingdom?