Economics of Ancient Egypt

What made it possible for the Egyptians to live in the desert?

• The Nile River flooded

• The Euphrates River flooded

• The Tigris River flooded

• They found an ocean

True or False: Military conquests decreased the wealth of Egypt

• False

• True

True or False: Egyptian leaders sometimes use money from conquests to fund architecture projects and to not support the arts.

• IDK

• True

• False

Egypt traded with Kush.

• Yes

• No

• IDK

Egypt and Kush traded:

• Ivory

• Paper

• Gold

• Ebony

The Kushites moved their capital city to Meroë after they lost control of Egypt to the:

• Babylonians

• Assyrians

• IDK

• something

True or False: Meroë was located near deposits of bronze ore, so the Kushites were able to make bronze tools and weapons.

• IDK

• something

• True

• False

Did Meroë become part in a large trading network?

• No

• IDK

• Yes

• Maybe

True or False: The Kushites had plenty of resources left, such as wood from the forests, so they had plenty to trade.

• IDK

• False

• Maybe

• True

By the mid-300s CE, the (a)   army destroyed the city of Meroë and captured Kush.