HISTORY, Ch. 2: Ancient Egypt

Capital of Egypt during the Middle Kingdom

• Thebes
• Memphis
• Cairo
• Giza

He ordered building of the Great Pyramid at Giza

• Ramses II
• Khufu
• Isis
• Hatshepsut

Wild rapids formed by boulders and narrow cliffs are called

• waterway
• bayou
• cascade
• cataracts

WESTERN ASIAN people, who settled in the eastern Nile Delta, and conquered Egypt were called

• Hyksos
• Kushites
• Assyrians
• Babylonians

Egyptian name for Egypt, meaning "the Black Lands" is 

• Kemet
• Chernozem
• Thebes
• Memphis

Capital of Egypt during the Old Kingdom was called 

• Memphis
• Nashville
• Thebes
• Gaza

Greatest of the NEW KINGDOM pharaohs was 

• Khufu
• Ramses II
• Tutankhamen
• Amenhotep III

Grassland south of Egypt was called

• meadow
• pasture
• savannas
• prairie

A line of rulers that passes power from father to son is a 

• dynasty
• family
• government
• ancestry

The Egyptian invention to prevent the pharaoh's body from decomposing was called 

• preparation
• draining
• embalming
• drying