The Gift of The Nile
Another word for Rapids
What are Cataracts?
People from rich and powerful families
What are Nobles?
Paths followed by traders
What are trade routes?
Egyptian Writing System
What are hieroglyphics?
These people worked for Egypts Rulers and Nobles
What are servants?
A triangle shaped area of land made from soil deposited by a river
What is a Delta?
A period in Egyptian History that happened from 2700 BC to 2200 BC
What is the Old Kingdom?
A period of order and stability that lasted to about 1750 BC
What is the Middle Kingdom?
A long lasting paper like material made from reeds
What is Papyrus?
These people traveled and traded with different people
Who are Merchants?
The name for the Northern Region of Egypt
What is Lower Egypt?
A case that mummies are kept in
What is a sarcophagus?
The period during which Egypt reached the height of its power and glory
What is the New Kingdom?
A huge, stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics
What is the Rosetta Stone?
These people wrote and copied religious and literary texts
Who are scribes?
The Nile is over this long in miles
What is 4,000 miles?
The God of the Underworld
Who is Osiris?
This woman was married to Thutmose II
Who is Queen Hatshepsut?
Imaginary Creatures with the bodies of lions and the heads of other animals or humans
What are sphinxes?
Peasants and these people made up a huge majority of Egypt's population
Who are Farmers?
Series of Rulers from the same family
What is a dynasty?
The God of Wisdom
Who is Thoth?
In the 1200s BC, This pharaoh fought the Hittites
Who is Ramses the Great?
A tall, four sided pillar that is pointed on top
What is an Obelisk?
When the Pharaoh demanded that Peasants and Farmers worked on a project, they got paid with this
What is grain?