Vocabulary
Fast moving waters
cataracts
word for black land
kemet
Egypt was made up of 2 kingdoms called
Upper and Lower Egypt
means great house
pharaoh
great tombs
pyramids
bucket with a long pole to transfer water
shadoof
2 rivers of the Nile are:
White Nile and Blue Nile
Who unified the kingdoms
Narmer
the Egyptian sun god who pharaoh was to be the son of
Re
why the pharaoh's personal items were placed in the pyramids
pharaoh would be happy after death
government in which the same person is both political and religious leader
theocracy
How did they water their crops
canals and irrigation
A line of rulers from one family
dynasty
two crucial gods
sun god re and river god hapi
first engineer to build pyramids
Imhotep
government officials
bureaucrats
Egyptian writing system
hieroglyphics
Dynasties were organized into 3 time periods
Old, Middle, New kingdoms
important writing with prayers and magic spells
The Book of the Dead
the biggest and grandest of the pyramids
Great Pyramid
process of keeping a body from decaying
embalming
How did they depend on the Nile to grow crops
Flooding was seasonal and consistent
Narmer established this city as the capital
Memphis
process of protecting the body for the afterlife
embalming
the most important in ancient Egyptian society
family