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15 Cards in this Set
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Describe the ROUTE of the Nile River |
Begins in east Africa and flows northward into Egypt |
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The Nile River is the ________ river in the world |
longest |
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What was a disadvantage of the Nile flooding? |
The Flood killed people and ruined crops. |
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The Egyptians determined the Nile would flood.... |
sometime between May and September |
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Why were calendars important to Egyptians? |
So they were able to count the days in between the Nile flood to prepare |
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Why did Egyptians find understanding the flood cycles important to their civilization? |
They found it was important so they could prepare and know when/how it works. |
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Name the 3 kings that may be responsible for unifying the 2 kingdoms of Egypt? |
1) King Menes 2) Manetho 3) Pharaoh
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What helped us decode hieroglyphics? |
Rosetta Stone - on the stone was a passage written in Greek |
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What made the Egyptian economy more prosperous? |
By trading food or clothes/animals. |
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What did Egyptian farmers do while the Nile flooded their fields? |
They'd tell stories or use the food they stored from surplus harvests to eat |
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What was different between Egyptians and Sumerians treatment of women? |
Egyptian women were treated as Queens and Sumerian weren't treated as well so they battled for women. |
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List 3 ways Egyptians and Sumerians are alike |
1) Both civilizations made rights for women 2) They both have new languages (a form of writing) 3) They both worshipped many gods |
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How is the and of Nubia different from the land of Egypt? |
They are different because Nubia built pyramids but much smaller and had a distinctive style |
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Why did Egyptians want granite blocks from Nubia's northern region? |
To use in building their temples |
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What was different about how Egyptians farmed compared to Nubians? |
The Egyptians farm all day and Nubians only a little bit of time. |
