|
 What was a cataract? | swift moving rapid or waterfall |
| delta | the area near a river's mouth where the water deposits fine soil |
| silt | fine soil deposited by a river |
| red land | land away from the Nile River that was the desert land |
| black land | land by the Nile River good for farming |
| shaduf | tool used to collect water |
| Egyptian economic activities | farming, mining, fishing, hunting, trading |
| scribes | people whose job it was to write and keep records |
| Pharaoh | King of Egypt |
| hieroglyphs | Pictures that stand for different words or sounds. Egyptian form of writing. |
| papyrus | Egyptian paper-like material |
| mummy | body that has been dried so so it won't decay |
| dynasty | a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family |
| Ramses II | extended Egypt's territory, negotiated a peace treaty, and built a monument to himself |
| New Kingdom | Strong Pharaohs ruled |
| Akhenaton | Replaced worship of old gods with that of the sun god, Aton |
| Queen Hatshepsut | Expanded trade, built monuments (obelisk) |
| Middle Kingdom | Invasions from the Hyksos |
| Khufu | Had the Great Pyramid built |
| King Djoser | Had the Step Pyramid built |
| Old Kingdom | pyramids were built |
| Nubia | A region of Africa that is south of Egypt? |
| What similarities are there between Nubia and Egypt? | Egypt and Nubia were divided into an upper and lower half and people lived next to the Nile River. |
| Difference between Egypt and Nubia? | Nubia had a climate that provided greater moisture. |
| A powerful ancient kingdom of Nubia? | Kush |
| Piankhi | A Kushite king who defeated the Libyans, United Egypt and Kush, and became Pharaoh of Egypt. |
| How Nubia influenced Egypt? | Nubian monarchy (king) became the Egyptian Pharaoh. |
| How did Egypt influence Nubia? | art, architecture, gods, language, clothing, and pyramids |
| Capital of Kush during the first time period? | Napata |
| Capital of Kush during the second time period? | Meroe |
| Taharqa | Kushite ruler who fought against the Assyrians? |
| What was important about Meroe? | It had access to iron and gold. |
| Kingdom that developed on the Horn of Africa? | Aksum |
| Why was Aksum a good location? | It had access to trade to the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean, and Nile River. |
| A city on the Red Sea and was a main trading port of Aksum? | Adulis |
| King of Aksum who made Christianity the official religion? | Ezana |
| What were three achievements of the kingdom of Aksum? | Terraced farming, Pillars, and written language Ge'ez |
| What makes up 40% of the African continent? | savannahs |
| Early iron producing culture of West Africa | Nok |
| Bantu | Early culture of west Africa that eventually migrated to Central and Southern Africa? |
| Savannah | flat, grassy, treeless plains |
| griot | storyteller |
| desertification | expansion of dry desertlike conditions into fertile areas. |
| The migration that took thousands of years? | Bantu migration |
| How the Bantu and Nok cultures were different? | Bantu used iron for farming and the Nok used iron for tools they traded |