Vocab I
Vocab II
Important Things
Past Important Things
Miscellaneous
100
This term means a "waterfall".
What is a cataract?
100
These are pictures which stand for a word or letter.
What are hieroglyphs?
100
This is a line of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
100
This is a person who moves from place to place and does not have a permanent home.
What is a nomad?
100
This is a four-sided shaft with a pyramid-shaped top
What is an obelisk?
200
This word refers to the area near a river's mouth where the water deposits fine soil.
What is a delta?
200
This is a paper like material made form a reed of the same name.
What is papyrus?
200
This is the order in which members of a royal family inherit a throne.
What is succession?
200
This term refers to the watering of crops.
What is irrigation?
200
This was the pharaoh who ruled Egypt from 1279 to 1213 and created a stable empire.
Who is Ramses II?
300
This is the name for fine soil deposited by a river.
What is silt?
300
This is the life that takes place in another world after death.
What is the afterlife?
300
This is a structure with triangular sides that meet at a point.
What is a pyramid?
300
This term refers to an amount of a good, such as food, in excess of what is needed.
What is surplus?
300
This is the name of the longest river in the world and the source of life for the Egyptians.
What is the Nile River?
400
This is a type of fabric woven from flax plants.
What is linen?
400
This is the process which preserves the body after death.
What is the embalming process?
400
This was the pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid.
Who is Khufu?
400
This term refers to a period of very little or no rain.
What is drought?
400
This is the name of the tool which spread water across the fields.
What is a shaduf?
500
This is a person whose job was to write and keep records.
Who is a scribe?
500
This is a body that has been dried so it won't decay.
What is a mummy?
500
This was an Egyptian queen who declared herself pharaoh in 1472.
Who is Queen Hatshepsut?
500
This was an ancient Sumerian or Babylonian temple that rose in a series of steplike levels.
What is a ziggurat?
500
This was the name of the pharaoh who succeeded Akhenaton and was just a boy when he took the throne.
Who is King Tutankhamen?
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