The Nile
Vocab


Farming in Egypt

Life in Egypt
Pyramids
100
The direction the Nile flows.
What is north?
100
A triangle area of soil at the mouth of a river that looks like fingers.
What is a delta
100
Egypt is mostly dessert. When the Nile floods, some lands become fertile. Egyptians call this land by a name.
What is black land?
100
The 2 original kingdoms of ancient Egypt.
What is Upper and Lower Egypt.
100
The purpose of a pyramid.
What is a tomb?
200
The Nile irrigates land this far on both sides of it.
What is 5 miles?
200
A mixture of soil and small rocks.
What is silt.
200
The dry, desert land that the will not ever grow crops.
What is red land?
200
How the crown changed after Egypt was unified.
What is combined the white crown and the red crown into one?
200
The number of days it took to mummify a body.
What is 70?
300
The Nile empties into this body of water.
What is the Medeterrainean Sea?
300
The term used for the belief in many gods.
What is polytheistic?
300
The most important food crops near the Nile.
What is wheat and barley?
300
The capital city during hte first dynasty.
What is Memphis?
300
The city where the Great Pyramid was built.
What is Giza?
400
The 2 areas of egypt that the Nile flows through.
What is Upper and Lower Egypt?
400
Another name for the waterfalls on the Nile.
What is cataracts?
400
The crop used for making paper.
What is papyrus?
400
We do not know much about egypt until the third dynasty when this person started keeping records.
Who is Manetho?
400
The number of years it took to build the Great Pyramid
What is 20?
500
The 2 problems with traveling on Nile.
What is cataracts and needing sails.
500
The term meaning god-king
What is pharoh?
500
Since the NIle could sometimes flood too much or not enough, endangering crops, Egyptians built these.
What is irrigation canals?
500
Life in Egypt is divided into 3 divisions.
What is Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom?
500
The number of workers and the number of blocks used in it.
What is 20,000 and 2 million?
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