Unit 5 - Egypt and Kush Review

How was the Old Kingdom established?

What is one reason for the decline of the New Kingdom?

What is the formal Egyptian writing system that used symbols to represent words?

Who were the bureaucrats in ancient Egypt?

Which direction does the water of the Nile River flow?

What river flows through Egypt?

In ancient Egypt, when a pharaoh died, who usually became the next pharaoh?

Which group of people made up ancient Egypt's largest social class?

Who is at the top of the Egyptian social pyramid?

Why was the land along the Nile River so fertile?

Egyptian Mythology is polytheistic, which means that it is a...

What key factor enabled ancient Egyptians to develop specialized job skills?

What was the purpose of the Egyptian Book of the Dead?

What object helped historians learn to understand hieroglyphics?

What natural resource helped make the Kushites a wealthy civilization?

Why were pyramids in ancient Egypt built?

Which key improvement was made during the Middle Kingdom?

What did the Kushites learn from the Assyrians?

Which Egyptian leader first united Upper and Lower Egypt?

Both the ancient Egyptians and the Kingdom of Kush were located on what continent?

A many month process of preserving a body by embalming it and wrapping it with linen is

What physical features surround the Nile River?

The region of Nubia was later known as

When did Egyptians begin building pyramids?