World Civilization
Chapter 4, Section 1
The Egyptian and Nubian Empires
Name: __________________________________
Use information found in chapter 4, section 1 (The Egyptian and Nubian Empires) to answer the following questions.
MAIN IDEA
A.
Recognizing Effects: What were some of the political and economic effects of
Egypt’s conquests?
History Makers
1.
Summarizing: What made Hatshepsut unusual among rulers of Egypt?
2.
Critical Thinking: Why would a ruler encourage trade rather than making war?
MAIN IDEA
B.
Making Inferences: Why might the Kushites have viewed themselves as guardians of Egyptian values?
SKILLBUILDER: Interpreting Visual Sources
Kush Empire, 700 B.C. (page 93)
1.
Forming Opinions: Why did the Nubians combine Egyptian culture with elements of their own culture?

World Civilization
Chapter 4, Section 1
The Egyptian and Nubian Empires
Nubia:
2.
What geographic features might have limited the expansion of the Kush Empire?
Vocabulary: Write a definition for each of the following terms.
Hyksos:
New Kingdom:
Hatshepsut:
Thutmose III:

Meroë
Ramses II:
Kush:
Piankhi:
World Civilization
Chapter 4, Section 1
The Egyptian and Nubian Empires

World Civilization
Chapter 4, Section 1
The Egyptian and Nubian Empires
Fill in the Blank:
Choose the word that most accurately completes each sentence below. Write that word in the blank provided.
Kush
Aksum
New Kingdom
Nubia dynasty
Hatshepsut cuneiform
Phoenicia
Assyrians
Hyksos
Meroë
Piankhi
Ramses II
Valley of the Kings
Thutmose III
1.
The Asiatic invaders who ruled Egypt from about 1640 to 1570 B.C. were called
________________.
2.
The time period between about 1570 and 1075 B.C. in Egypt, its third period of glory, was known as the ________________.
3.
________________ was a female pharaoh who brought great prosperity to Egypt.
4. ________________was a warlike ruler who led a number of victorious invasions into
Palestine and Syria and turned Egypt into a mighty empire.
5.
Egypt also pushed farther into ________________, a region of Africa that straddled the upper Nile River.
6.
The Egyptians and Hittites made a peace treaty under the reign of Egyptian pharaoh ________________.
7.
The area near Thebes where Egyptian rulers of the New Kingdom built splendid tombs was called ________________.
8.
The Nubian kingdom that interacted heavily with Egypt was ________________.
9.
King ________________ united the Nile Valley and became part of Egypt’s Twentyfifth Dynasty.
10.
The Kushites in Egypt were defeated by a war-like people from Southwest Asia called the ________________.
11.
After being forced out of Egypt, the Kushite royal family moved south to________________.
12.
Meroë eventually was defeated by another kingdom located 400 miles to the southeast, ________________.