Nile River
The direction that the Nile flows.
What is North?
The desert immediately East of the Nile River
What is the Eastern desert?
Sea located to the East of Egypt
What is the Red Sea?
Civilization located the South of Ancient Egypt, famous for the alphabet and iron working.
What is Nubia?
triangular tract of land near the mouth of a river with fertile soil
What is the delta?
The desert immediately West of the Nile River.
What is the Western desert?
the part of Egypt closest to the Mediterranean Sea
What is Lower Egypt?
The area with rock cut tombs of pharaohs and nobles of the NEW kingdom.
What is Valley of the Kings?
Body of water the Nile flows into
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The largest desert in the world, runs through most of North Africa.
the part of Egypt furthest from the Mediterranean Sea, Thebes was the capital.
What is Upper Egypt?
What is Giza?
Mountainous physical feature that is the source of the Blue Nile
What are the Ethiopian Highlands?
Large peninsula to the East of Egypt which contains the Al-Nafud Desert.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
The ocean that is East of Africa, the island of Madagascar lies in it.
What is the Indian Ocean?
A tablet of black rock used for translation of hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Large African Lake that is the source of the White Nile
What is Lake Victoria?
Desert south of Ancient Egypt named after the people who lived south of the Egyptians and were famous for iron working.
What is the Nubian desert?
The three major cities of Ancient Egypt that you labelled on your map.
What are Memphis, Giza, and Thebes?
The three languages ( types of writing) on the Rosetta Stone.
What are Greek, Demotic, and Egyptian ( hieroglyphics)?