Geography of Northern Africa
Importance of the Nile River
Early Egyptian Rule
Later Egyptian Rule
Other
100
A grassy plan.
What is a Savanna?
100
To tell ahead of time.
What is Predict?
100
A burial place for the dead.
What is a Pyramid?
100
Groups of people from the same place or country fighting each other.
What is Civil War?
100
A preserved body.
What is a Mummy?
200
Low land formed at the mouth of some rivers by the silt the river drops there.
What is a Delta?
200
Life after death.
What is Afterlife?
200
A paper-like material.
What is Papyrus?
200
A go-between for humans and gods.
What is an Intermediary?
200
The Egyptian system of writing.
What is Hieroglyphics?
300
A series of rapids and waterfalls.
What is a Cataract?
300
The yearly flood.
What is Inundation?
300
A series of rulers from the same family.
What is a Dynasty?
300
A network of appointed government officials.
What is a Bureaucracy?
300
The most important government official (adviser).
What is the Vizier?
400
A rich mixture of bits of rock and soil.
What is Silt?
400
A region with a single government and a united group of people.
What is a Nation-State?
400
The Egyptian king.
Who is Pharaoh?
400
The Pharaoh who died at the age of 18.
Who is Tut?
400
Egyptians turned to using these after the pyramids were being robbed.
What are Hidden Tombs?
500
People who made clothing, shoes, containers, and other goods.
Who are Craft Workers?
500
Capitals of city-states.
What are Nomes?
500
The Pharaoh's commands.
What are Decrees?
500
Gave people the ability to decode the Egyptian Hieroglyphics and unlocked the recorded history of the Ancient Egyptians.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
500
The social class one step above the slaves in the "Egyptian Social Pyramid".
Who are Farmers?
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