Vocab
Vocab 2
Egyptian Culture
Nile River
Egypt
100
Rock-filled rapids
What are cataracts?
100
Title used by kings of Egypt
What is pharaoh?
100
Picturelike symbols
What are hieroglyphs?
100

The Nile river is known for being 

What is the longest river?

100
A life after death
What is an afterlife?
200
Fine soil found on river bottoms
What is silt?
200

A series of rulers from the same family or ethnic group- a Ruling family

What is a dynasty?

200
An early form of paper made from a reed found in the marshy areas of the Nile delta
What is papyrus?
200

An ancient region in the Nile River valley south of Egypt

What is Nubia?

200
The preserved body of a dead person
What is a mummy?
300
A plain at the mouth of a river
What is a delta?
300
Someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule
What is a regent?
300

Most likely the pharaoh during the Exodus in the Old Testament history

Who is Ramses II?

300
Ancient Egyptians called their land this because of the dark soil
What is "the black land"?
300

Huge buildings with four sloping triangle-shaped sides

What is a pyramid?

400

drawing or symbol that represents a word or sound

What is Hieroglyphics?

400

a statue or other freestanding piece of art

What is a statue?

400

A government based on religion

What is a theocracy?

400

This natural occurrence caused the Egyptians to implement new farming techniques

What is yearly flooding?

400
The Great Pyramid was built in the ancient city
What is Giza?
500
Workers skilled at crafting items by hand
What are artisans?
500

the buying and selling of goods and services

What is commerce?

500
Name the Egyptian social class pyramid...
What is pharaoh, upper class (priests, members of pharaoh's court, and nobles), middle class (merchants and skilled workers), peasants, slaves
500

Nile originates from the Greek word “neilos” which means

What is a Valley?

500

  • a woman, ruled Egypt after her husband had died and her son was too young to rule.

Who is Hatsheput?

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