Geography
Famous Dusty Dead Pharoahs
Egyptian Mythology
Kush
Vocab
100

The river the ancient Egyptian civilization is based on.

Nile

100

He was known more for his tomb than anything he did as a pharaoh. "The Boy King". 

Tutankhamun

100

An object symbolizing the holy beetle in ancient Egypt.

Scarab

100

Grassy plains

Savanna

100

A line of rulers from one country.

Dynasty

200

An area of fertile soil at the mouth of a river

Delta

200

The Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Thutmose II and the fifth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.

Hatshepsut

200

God of the Sun

Ra

200

The origional capital city of the kingdom of Kush

Napata

200

The process of treating a body to prevent it from decaying.

Embalming

300

Wild rapids in the Nile river

Cataracts

300

This represented healing and wholeness

The Eye of Horus

300

God of the Dead

Osiris

300

The Kushites learned the secret of this from the Assyrians.

How to make iron.

300

A reed plant cut into strips and pressed together to create a writing surface.

Papyrus

400

The Nile river flows into this sea.

Mediterranean Sea.

400

The first paraoah to bring Upper and Lower Egypt together under one ruler.

Narmar

400

Goddess of protection and the home.

Bastet

400

This king invaded Upper Egypt around 750 B.C.E.

King Kashta

400

A bucket attached to a long pole to lift water from the Nile to the basins

Shadoof

500

This was home to the tombs of the great pharaohs of the New Kingdom.

Valley of the Kings

500

The Great Pyramid was built for this pharoah.

Khufu

500

The god of sacred texts, mathematics, the sciences, and magic.

Thoth

500

The first Nubian kingdom.

Kerma

500

A collection of spells and prayers that Egyptians studied to obtain life after death.

The Book of the Dead

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