Vocabulary
Lesson 1: The Lifeline of the Nile
Lesson 2: Life in Egypt
Lesson 3: Nubia and Egypt
Technology
100
A mixture of soil and small rocks carried by water.
What is silt?
100
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
100
A preserved, dead body.
What is a mummy?
100
A kingdom to the south of Egypt, famous for their archers.
What is Nubia?
100
A large stone building which served as a house for the dead.
What is a pyramid?
200
A waterfall.
What is a cataract?
200
The direction in which the Nile River flows.
What is north?
200
The legendary ancient king credited with uniting Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Menes?
200
The son of King Kashta.
Who is Piankhl?
200
A form of writing based on pictures.
What is hieroglyphics?
300
Sacred carvings
What are hieroglyphics?
300
The Egyptian sun god.
Who is Ra?
300
The pharaoh for whom the Great Pyramid of Giza was built.
Who is Khufu?
300
One of the Nubian capitols for which their language was named.
What is Meroe?
300
The plant which the Egyptians used to make paper.
What is papyrus?
400
The way people use and manage resources.
What is an economy?
400
A triangular shaped area of soil at the mouth of a river that looks like fingers spread out.
What is a delta?
400
The priest and adviser who began keeping records of the ancient Egyptian kings.
Who is Manetho?
400
The capitol of Kush, destroyed by the Egyptians after 600 B.C.
What is Napata?
400
The object which enabled Jean Champollion to decipher hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
500
Great house
What does "pharaoh" mean?
500
The brightest star in the Egyptian sky, used to develop a calendar.
What is Sirius?
500
A graphic device used to show the class structure of ancient Egypt.
What is a social pyramid?
500
The name of the Nubian's written language.
What is Meroitic?
500
Used by ancient Egyptians to measure the level of the Nile River.
What is a nilometer?
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