National Geographic activity zone
Egyptian Culture Chart
The Five Themes of Geography
1. Location
Exact location: What is the latitude and longitude?
Relative location: “It is north of such and such.”
2. Place
What’s it like in this place? Describe the characteristics!
Physical features: Natural (land, rivers, mountains, vegetation, climate).
Cultural features: Human (everything that is man-made!)
3. Interaction
How people interact with the environment = land, rivers, sea, climate.
How people adapt to, modify, and depend upon the environment.
Interactions: Grow crops, dig canals, mine for minerals, wear thin clothing
for hot climate.
4. Movement
People move in and out. Who? Why? By what means?
Goods move in and out. What? Why? By what means?
Ideas move in and out. What? Why? By what means?
As a result of all this movement, this place is connected to other places.
What places?
5. Region
A region is a territory or area that has common physical or human features.
Egypt is a region with a common physical feature (river, soil, climate)
and cultural features (farming, culture, history).
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The Kingdom of Kush
The Kingdom of Kush was an ancient civilization.
It existed from 2000 B.C. to 350 A.D.
It lay in the grasslands - midway between Egypt’s desert and Africa’s rainforests.
Today, ancient Soba is Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.
Location
1. The Kingdom of Kush lies on what continent? Africa.
2. Kush lies where - relative to Egypt? southern egypt - edddie
3. Kush lies where - relative to Nubia? Kush lies in Upper Nubia -Blair
4. Kush lies where - relative to the Red Sea? It lies to the W of the Red Sea.- Rediet
The Nile
5. The Kingdom of Kush arose along which river? The Nile River-Rediet
6. True or False: The Kingdom of Kush arose where the Blue Nile and the White
Nile join together. True- Rediet
7. True or False: The Kingdom of Kush lay halfway between Lake Victoria and the
Mediterranean Sea. True- Rediet
8. True or False: The Kingdom of Kush lay in “High Africa.”
Commercial relationship with Egypt
9. The Kingdom of Kush exported gold, ivory, and slaves to Egypt. Ivory comes
from what? Elephants- Rediet
10. The Kingdom of Kush was not desert or rainforest. It lay in high grasslands.
What animal did they raise and sell to Egypt? cattle ,goat and sheep -Blair
Political relationship to Egypt
11. Around 1500 B.C., Egypt conquered the Kingdom of Kush.
Around 750 B.C., the Kingdom of Kush conquered Egypt.
By what means did armies travel?They traveled by boat.(Helena)
Cultural relationship with Egypt
12. When the Kushites were ruled by Egypt and when they ruled Egypt, they
adopted Egyptian culture - its language, religion, and art. True or False: The
Kushites believed in an afterlife. True, because they had a strong influence on them(Helena)
Expelled from Egypt!
13. The Kushites would have ruled Egypt forever, but they were conquered by the
Assyrians from Mesopotamia. True or False: They escaped to a higher elevation.True and False because in 591b.c an Egyptian army defeated Kushite forces. But the Kushites moved their capital city, Meroe. Meroe became an important center of iron making. (Helena)
14. At first their capital city was Napata. When the Assyrians destroyed Napata, the
Kushites built a new capital where? They built a new capital in meroe -Chris
15. At Meroe, the Kushites discovered a brand-new metal. What did they mine? Gold ,Iron and copper - Blair
16. Iron is much tougher than copper or bronze! What did they do with iron?With iron they built tools and weapons. The Egyptians got it from trading with the Nubians.(Helena)
17. When the Kingdom of Kush was no longer connected to Egypt, what do you
think happened to their culture? The culture changed a little because they didn't have the reference on how the rituals and the embalmings really worked.- Rediet
End of the Civilization
18. The Kingdom of Kush traded with Axum and India. Around 350 A.D., Kush
was conquered by Axum. From Kush, what direction is Axum? SE ( south east)- Rediet
Comments (1)
Tamar said
at 5:28 pm on Jun 2, 2009
Mr.Ortega when is the greece project due
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