Fan shaped, fertile land created where the Nile empties into the Mediterranean Sea
What is the delta?
100
This pharaoh was the first ruler of a unified Egypt when his army from Upper Egypt overtook Lower Egypt
Who is Menes?
200
The sea that creates Egypt's eastern border
What is the Red Sea?
200
The joining of Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt into one kingdom was called this
What is unification?
200
The practice of one person owning another person
What is slavery?
200
Bits of soil and rock carried off by the Nile River
What is silt?
200
The capital city where the pharaoh's lived
What is Memphis?
300
During the New Kingdom, when Egypt invaded and expanded into other areas, it officially became this (a group of lands and people ruled by one government)
What is an empire?
300
How Egyptian society was arranged
What is in a social pyramid?
300
Reed like plant growing along the Nile used to make paper
What is papyrus?
300
Egyptians believed that the Pharaoh was the son of this
Who is Ra, the sun god?
400
While the area around the Nile was quite rich and ready for agricultural development, the rest of Egypt was most this kind of land
What is desert?
400
During the period of the Middle Kingdom, Egypt went to war many times against these people.
What are the Hyksos?
400
The official name for the ruler of Egypt
What is the pharaoh?
400
The direction in which the Nile flowed
What is north?
400
The pharaoh Khufu ordered the building of this monumental tomb
What is the Great Pyramid?
500
A unit of measure on a map used to represent a certain distance on Earth
What is scale?
500
Egypt's pharaoh Hatshepsut arranged for a great expedition to Punt for this purpose
What is to trade?
500
The class of people above slaves on the social pyramid