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| 7264326141 | Bantu | most influential people of Sub-Saharan Africa, inhabited a region embracing the eastern part of modern Nigeria and southern part of modern Cameroon, settled along river banks, where they navigated in canoes and grew yams, oil palms, and raised cattle, lived in communities headed by chiefs that represented them in dealings with other communities and lead religious ceremonies | 0 | |
| 7264327550 | Cataracts | unnavigable stretch of rapids and waterfalls on the Nile River that restricted much of the Nubian society's use of the Nile for travel | 1 | |
| 7264327551 | Demographic pressure | the size, growth, and density of a human population that can "pressure" people to move away, Bantus had a lot of demographic pressure along their river banks so they began to slowly migrate inland, Egyptians had lots of people living along the Nile because that was the only natural resource that sustained them | 2 | |
| 7264328824 | Hieratic | "priestly," script, simplified, cursive form of hieroglyphics that was used by ancient Egyptians for more than 3,000 years because hieroglyphics were too much work until Egyptians adapted the Greek alphabet | 3 | |
| 7264328825 | Hieroglyphics | "holy inscriptions" because they were mostly found on temples because they were so much work to write down, pictographic, symbols represented sounds and ideas, preserved on papyrus, Egyptian form of writing, usually used only for formal writing and monument inscriptions | 4 | |
| 7264329698 | Hyksos | "foreign rulers," Semitic people, were horse-riding nomads, introduced horses and bronze weapons to Egypt because that is what they attacked them with, Egypt equipped their army with horses and war chariots, as well as bronze weapons in order to drive them out of Egypt | 5 | |
| 7264330504 | "Kingdoms" | groups of small city-states ruled by a general ruler from a central place, like the Pharaoh of Egypt, or small monarchies formed by Sudanic peoples ruled by divine kings | 6 | |
| 7264330505 | Menes | Egyptian ruler named Narmer, official from southern Egypt who rose to power and extended his power north, founded Memphis at junction between lower and upper Egypt, became capital and political center of ancient Egypt, built centralized state ruled by Pharaoh, unified Egypt | 7 | |
| 7264331800 | Mercenary | professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army, Nubian mercenaries were common in Egypt because they had a better chance of making money, Egypt and Nubia were culturally linked | 8 | |
| 7264331801 | Merotic | alphabetic script created by the Nubians when their capital was Meroë, used Egyptian hieroglyphics but had them represent sounds rather than ideas which created a more flexible writing system, by Kush people | 9 | |
| 7264332682 | Mummification | supposed to help deceased family member reach eternal life, happened in Egypt, but never a general practice, OK- only ruling elites and relatives, royals and relatives were mummified, NK-all people could reach eternal life and be mummified | 10 | |
| 7264332683 | Nubians Osiris | appeared in association with Nubian god Sebiumeker, who was a creator god and divine guardian of his devotees | 11 | |
| 7264334094 | Pharaoh | OK-gods living on earth, owned all land, associated with Horus, the sky god, and viewed as offspring from Amon, the sun god because he was overseeing affairs on earth just as Amon was overseeing cosmos, merged with Amon at death, built huge pyramids to show power, NK-army and elaborate bureaucracy, built temples, palaces, and statues to advertise power, extend Egyptian authority, supreme and central ruler | 12 | |
| 7264334095 | Pyramids | OK, symbols of Pharaoh's authority, royal tombs, testimony that pharaoh's can marshal Egyptian resources, biggest one is Khufu(Cheops) at 2.3 million blocks, 84,000 people, 80 days a year, for 20 years | 13 | |
| 7264334096 | Savanna | a grassy plain where Sudanic peoples first began to raise cattle and collect grains, as well as start agricultural societies ruled by small kings around 9000 B.C.E | 14 | |
| 7264335381 | Scribe | literate individuals who prepared administrative and legal documents for governments and private parties, lived best life in Egypt, used to write down and preserve documents on papyrus with hieroglyphics and hieratic | 15 |
