SECTION 1 VOCAB.
rapids
What is cataracts?
A period in Egyptian history that lasted 500 years.
What is the Old Kingdom?
The worlds longest river.
What is the Nile River?
The sun god.
Who is Amon-Re?
Specially treated bodies wrapped in cloth.
What is a mummy?
A triangle-shaped area of land made from soil deposited by a river.
What is a delta?
The most famous pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Who is Khufu?
Two-thirds of Egypt's fertile farmland was located here.
What is the Nile Delta?
The god of the underworld.
Who is Osiris?
A person's life force.
What is Ka?
A title for an Egyptian king.
What is a pharaoh?
People from rich and powerful families.
What is nobles?
Egypt included two regions: which were called.
What is Upper and Lower Egypt?
The goddess of magic?
Who is Isis?
Huge stone tombs with four triangle shaped sides that met in a point at the top.
What is pyramids?
A series of rulers from the same family.
People of wealth and power.
What is elite?
The capital of lower Egypt. (Two Kingdoms pg.91)
What is Pe?
The god of the dead.
Who is Anubis?
The largest pyramid in Egypt.
What is the Great Pyramid of Khufu?
An Egyptian pharaoh who ruled over Upper Egypt around 3100 B.C.
Who is Menes?
The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.
What is engineering?
The capital of Upper Egypt was called? pg.91
What is Nekhen?
The god of the pharaohs?
Who is Horus?
Magical spells and hymns written on the pharaohs tombs.
What is Pyramid Text?