Vocabulary
The flat fan shaped land made of silt deposited at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
This river often flooded its desert surroundings.
What is the Nile?
The first Pharaoh of Egypt
Menes
The ancient Egyptian system of writing that used symbols to stand for objects.
What are hieroglyphics?
The Nile carries this mixture of tiny rocks and soil down river with it.
What is silt?
This person was in charge of collecting taxes, the judicial system, and maintaining a fair distribution of flood water.
Who is an Egyptian governor?
The watering of dry land by the use of canals or pipes.
What is irrigation?
This type of Egyptian worker benefited most from the Nile's flooding, and especially the soil that it brought with it.
Who are farmers?
These were ancient Egyptian record keepers
Scribes
The way people manage resources and money.
What is an economy?
This was used to travel from upper Egypt to lower Egypt.
What are reed boats?
This pharaoh first ordered the construction of the pyramids
Khufu
A reed plant that grows along the Nile
What is papyrus?
This ironically named part of Egypt is all the way at the north end of the Nile, where the Nile meets the Mediterranean.
What is Lower Egypt?
This god represented the dead who awaited rebirth
Osiris