Egypt’s Empire Lesson 3-Part A

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Around 2200 B.C., the ruling _____________
pharaohs in Memphis began to weaken.
200
For more than _____ years, disorder and violence swept through the region. A
new _______________
dynasty of pharaohs came to power. They moved the
capital to a city called _____________. This was a new period of
_____________ called the _____________ Kingdom.

conquered
During the Middle Kingdom, Egypt _____________ new territories. The
Eyptian pharaohs added to their kingdom’s ____________.
whelth They required
_______________,
tribute or forced payments, from the peoples their armies had
conquered.

The pharaohs made many improvements within Egypt. They added thousands of
acres
______________ to land already being farmed to _____________
increase
production
crop _________________.. The _______________
pharaohs
ordered the
canal
construction of a _____________ between the Nile River and the
red
__________ ______..
sea

Egyptian arts and _____________

architecture
thrived during the Middle Kingdom.
Painters decorated the walls of tombs and ____________
temples with colorful
scenes
______________ of stories about the gods and scenes of everyday life.
fishing
Sculptors carved hunting, ________, and battle scenes on large stone
_______.
walls
They created statues of pharaohs looking like ordinary humans
gods
instead of ______.
 nobles
During the 1600’s B.C. some Egyptian _________ challenged the power of the
divide
pharaohs. Civil war _________ and weakened Egypt allowing them to be
invaded by the Hyskos. They were powerful warriors who used methods of
warfare
___________ unknown to the Egyptians. They used horse-drawn
chariots bronze
___________ and sturdy weapons made of _________ and
_____________
iron
and took over the Egyptain’s land. The Hyskos ruled over
Egypt for more than _______
100 years. Meanwhile, the Egyptians learned how to
steer
___________ horse-drawn chariots and use Hyskos weapons. Around
1550
________, an Egyptain prince named __________
achmed formed an army and
drove the Hyskos out of Egypt.