Vocabulary I
The ruler of Egypt whose authority comes from the Gods/God.
What is Pharaoh?
The class of the construction crew who built the pyramids.
What are farmers?
The Nile River is on the continent of _____________________.
What is Africa?
Trade was made easier because people used ______________________________ to travel along the Nile.
What are boats?
The name of the first monothestic religion.
What is Judaism?
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
Transporting water by means of pipes, canals, and channels.
The Nile River Delta flows into the _____________________.
What is The Mediterranean Sea?
Mineral-rich soil or, _____________________ made farming in ancient Egypt very productive.
What is silt?
The name of the star that signaled the beginning of the agricultural new year in ancient Egypt.
What is the Dog Star/Sirius?
The chief minister who supervised day-to-day government
What is Vizier?
The name of the region to the South of the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Lower Egypt?
The more mountainous region of Egypt is also called _____________________.
What is Upper Egypt?
What is polytheism?
When power is passed down through the family from parent to child.
What is Dynasty?
Pictographic symbols catved on pyramid walls and written on papyrus.
What are Hieroglyphics?
To inundate, or inundation, also means to...
What is flood/flooding?
The Nile River Valley was important to the ancient world because of its supply of ______________________________.
What is wheat?
The Nile River contributed to the success of the ancient Egyptians because of its supply of water for crops and...
What is travel/trade?
The sea to the East of the Nile River.
What is the Red Sea?
Words or ideas represented through drawings and images.
What is Pictograph?
The name of the inundation season in Ancient Egypt.
What is 'Peret'?
Ancient Farmers’ understanding of the yearly ______________________________ led to the creation of the Egyptian calendar and made community life in Egypt possible.
Where the Nile River meets the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile River Delta (Delta)?
Ancient Egyptian farmers, traders, and merchants produced enough goods to create a _____________________, which allowed for successful trade to develop along the Nile.
What is surplus?