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| Q:What is the difference between the Nile River and the Euphrates River? |
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| A:In the Euphrates River the floods were unpredictable and the Nile Rivers floods were predictable |
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| Q:When did the Old Kingdom begin? |
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| Q:What is the importance of Anubis? |
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| A:He is the one who mummified the body |
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| Q:What are the arts that thrived in Egypt during the Middle Kingdom? |
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| A:Many arts like painting and sculpting pharaohs. Also literature and a new form of architecture was also created |
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| Q:How long did the Middle Kingdom last? |
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| Q:What was the name of the woman ruler of Egypt? |
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| Q:What did Hatshepsut do while she was a pharaoh of Egypt? |
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| A:She had traders sail along the east coast of Africa and exchange beads, metal, tools, and weapons for gold, ivory, ebony, and incense. |
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| Q:What were the names of the two rivers that branched into the Nile? |
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| A:The Blue Nile and the White Nile |
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| Q:How long is the Nile River? |
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| Q:What makes Egypt such a well protected land? |
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| A:One both sides there were burning hot deserts, toward the south there were two dangerous cataracts, and on the north there was the Mediterranean Sea and the delta which offered no harbors for invaders approaching from the sea. |
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| Q:What did the word, "pharaoh" originally mean? |
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| Q:Why were Egyptians willing to serve a pharaoh? |
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A:Egyptians believed that the unity of the kingdom depended on a strong leader. They considered the pharaoh to be the son of Re the Egyptian sun god
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| Q:What was the name of the Egyptians sun god? |
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| Q:What year did Egyptian pharoah's loose control of Egypt? |
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| Q:What were the tributes forced to do? |
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| A:Make payments to the pharaoh and enrich the kingdom |
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| Q:How were hieroglyphs like computer icons? |
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| Q:What was the main idea of the New Kingdom? |
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| A:Egypt expanded it's power |
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| Q:How old was King Tutankhamen when he was king? |
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| Q:What years where Ahmose's reign? |
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| Q:What word weans, "the conquered people of ancient Egypt" |
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| Q:Why were the deities always pharaoh after the pharaoh died? |
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| A:There system of who becomes pharaoh next was by family, not by election |
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| Q:What is papyrus made of? |
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| Q:What are the two tributes that people gave to the king? |
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| Why did the Egyptians believe that deities were so important? |
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| They believed that deities controlled the forces of nature |
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