Geography
Nile River
Innovations
Grab Bag
Vocabulary
100
This is the continent where you would find Egypt.
What is Africa?
100
The two dangerous animals that live in or along the banks of the Nile River.
What are crocodiles and hippos?
100
This device is used to lift water- it is made of a large bucket balanced by a heavy rock weight.
What is a shaduf?
100
This term means "Great House" and ws uded for the ancient kings of Egypt.
What is pharaoh?
100
This term means related to farming or growing crops.
What is agriculture?
200
These are the physical features that kept Egypt separated from other nations in the ancient times. (And still do today.)
What are deserts?
200
This term is used for a fan shaped area where a river breaks into many smaller branches before emptying into an ocean or sea.
What is a delta?
200
This riverside plant was peeled and smashed flat and used as paper.
What is papyrus?
200
These people knew how to read and write when most people, even the rich, did not know how.
What is a scribe?
200
These strong river plants are used for building boats, roofing houses, making baskets, and many other things in many parts of the world.
What are reeds?
300
Egypt is included in this world region, along with Syria, Jordan, Israel, Iran, and Iraq.
What is the Middle East?
300
Name three ways ancient Egyptians used the Nile River.
teacher judgement
300
This is the name for Egyptian symbol writing.
What is hieroglyphics? (hieroglyphs)
300
During the process of mummification, these were removed and placed into decorated jars.
What are your internal organs?
300
This refers to having extra amounts of food, more than you need.
What is a surplus?
400
The Nile River flows north and empties into this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
This yearly event left rich, fertile mud behind which was used for farming.
What is a flood?
400
These are places created as burial chambers, they can be in a pyramid or underground.
What is a tomb?
400
This refers to money paid to a government or king by citizens.
What are taxes?
400
Linen was a type of this, it was made from a plant called flax and used throughout Egypt by living people and mummies.
What is cloth? (fabric)
500
This historical body of water is located east of Egypt.
What is the Red Sea?
500
Parts of the Nile can not be used by boats because of "cataracts". What is another term for a river cataract?
What is a waterfall or set of rapids?
500
If you were an important Egyptian, your name would have been written in hieroglyphics inside of this oval shape.
What is a cartouche?
500
In the ancient world, and still today, many people in the Middle East use this part of the house for living space when it becomes very hot.
What is the roof?
500
This term means "many gods" and describes the ancient Egyptians as well as Mesopotamians.
What is polytheistic?
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