Vocab
These water rapids and waterfalls dominate the upper nile.
What is a cataract?
these containers held the organs of the dead
What are canopic jars?
Generally only boys could be this kind of record keeper, where they went to school for years to learn to read and write sacred texts
What is a scribe?
Egyptian form of communication
What are hieroglyphs?
This is the most important geographical feature of Ancient Egypt that is the center of everything
what is the Nile River?
a fan-shape of fertile marshland where the river meets the sea
What is a delta?
The god of the afterlife/dead/embalming
Who is Anubis?
These rulers were considered a God living on earth
what is a Pharaoh?
This kingdom did a lot of trade to Egypt from the South before it was later conquered by Egypt.
What is the Kingdom of Kush?
The Great Pyramids are here
What is Giza?
The practice of watering crops using complicated systems of moving water
What is a irrigation?
these helped wrap a person up to preserve their body for the afterlife
what are textiles/ linen strips?
This is the place where Pharaohs tried to protect their tombs by hiding them from thieves
What is the Valley of the Kings?
This object helped researchers translated Egyptian Text
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This was the first capital of Egypt in the Old Kingdom
What is Memphis?
A reed plant along the nile river, also used to make paper, sandals, and boats in early Egypt
What is Papyrus?
this salt helps dry out the body
This pharaoh was a boy, and his tomb became our primary source on Egyptain Artifacts
Who was King Tut?
This was the heavy outer coffin, usually made of hard stone, where bodies were placed after death.
what is a sarcophagus?
this area is what they consider the southern part of Egypt
what is Upper Egypt?
A group of rulers from one family
What is a Dynasty?
These are the two most important Gods, for protecting the Underworld and Magic
who are Osiris and Isis?
Not all Egyptians had to be farmers because of the surplus of food. This allowed many different jobs to be available. This is called _____________________
what is specialization?
This kingdom almost doubled Egypt's land, as Thutmose III captured nearly 350 cities.
what is the New Kingdom?
this area is what they consider the northern part of Egypt
what is Lower Egypt?