Key Terms
a large waterfall; any strong flood or rush of water
What is a cataract?
The world's longest river
What is the Nile?
a life after death
What is the afterlife?
a series of rulers from the same family or ethnic group
what is a dynasty?
Historians often turn to this to learn about social classes in Ancient Egypt.
What is Egyptian art?
a plain at the mouth of a river formed when sediment is deposited by flowing water
What is a delta?
The direction in which the Nile River flows
What is from south to north?
the preserved body of a dead person
What is a mummy?
he united upper and lower Egypt
Who is Menes?
These people formed a small, separate class in Egyptian society. They had rights and could own personal items.
What are slaves?
scientists who study the starts and other objects in the sky
What are astronomers?
part of Nubia with little rainfall, and not much land for farming, so people had to live close to the river
What is Lower Nubia
the city in which the Great Pyramid was built
What is Giza?
time in which builders begin the Great Pyramid and the Great Sphinx statue is completed. pharaohs kept the peace and traded with Nubia.
What is the Old Kingdom?
these people in Ancient Egypt were looked upon as living models of Isis. They could own property, run businesses, and enter into legal contracts, and supervise farm work or hunters.
What are women in Ancient Egypt?
mineral or combination of minerals mined for the production of metals
What is ore?
region where rain does fall, but farmland is in a narrow strip stretching no more than 2 miles on each side of the Nile River
What is Upper Nubia?
this was dangerous work, but was an act of faith and a way of ensuring the pharaoh's place in the afterlife
what is building pyramids?
time in which pharaohs spent wealth on public works instead of wars; Egypt extends into Lower Nubia; literature and art flourish
What is the Middle Kingdom?
this was used to keep track of the kingdom's growing wealth,
What are hieroglyphs?
complete control over someone or something
What is absolute power?
Name meaning "the black land" because of the dark soil left by the Nile's floods
What is "Kemet"?
This is when planning for a pharaoh's tomb began.
What is soon after he was crowned?
began in 1576 BC, time in which pharaohs became strong enough to drive out foreign invaders, time of King Tutankhamen
What is the New Kingdom?
at first ancient Egypts wrote on clay and stone. But later, they needed a more convenient writing surface, which they found in this early form of paper made from reed found in the marshy areas of the Nile delta.
What is papyrus?