Vocabulary Part 1
Vocabulary Part 2
Art History
The Nile River
Kingdoms and Leaders
100
Groups of rocky river rapids. They help divide the Nile River.
What are cataracts?
100
The area of sediment, soil or minerals, that are deposited at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
100
Name the structure and what kingdom it is from.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Sphinx?
100
The Nile River provided Egyptians with:
What is food, protection and transportation in an otherwise dry environment?
100
Name the three periods Ancient Egypt is divided into.
What are the Old, the Middle and the New Kingdoms?
200
The leader of ancient Egypt.
What is a Pharoah?
200
The name of a series of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
200
Name the structure and the kingdom.
What is an estate figure from the Middle kingdom?
200
What direction does the Nile River flow?
What is South to North?
200
About how long did each kingdom last?
What is about 1,000 years?
300
In Ancient Egypt it is a drawing or symbol that represents a word or sound.
What are hieroglyphics?
300
The name for the writing surface is similar to paper and named after the reeds by the Nile River.
What is papyrus?
300
Name the structure and kingdom.
What is the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut in the New Kingdom.
300
The fertile black soil that the Nile deposits after it floods.
What is silt?
300
The Pharoah who united Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Narmer?
400
The name for a statue or other free-standing piece of art.
What is a sculpture?
400
The term for the buying and selling of goods and services.
What is commerce?
400
Name the piece of art and the kingdom.
What is the mask of Tutankhamun in the New Kingdom?
400
Cataracts in the Nile River divided Egypt into what two regions?
What is Upper and Lower Egypt?
400
This Pharoah ruled for 66 years and conquered many new territories.
Who is Ramses II?
500
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheistic?
500
The name for a structure with triangular sides.
What is a pyramid?
500
Name the leader depicted and the kingdom.
What is Nefertiti and the New Kingdom?
500
The Nile River empties into this Sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
500
A successful female Pharoah who created many public works.
Who is Hatshepsut?