TERMS 1
A time of serious shortage of food.
Famine
The secretary to the ruler in a court.
Scribe
The desert that covers most of Egypt.
Sahara Desert
The Bible character who bacame a vizier.
Joseph
World's largest river.
Nile River
World's largest desert.
Sahara Desert
Title given to an Egyptian king.
Pharaoh
A body wrapped and preserved for eternal life.
Mummy
Also known as the "Gift of the Nile."
Egypt
The pharaoh whose tomb revealed much about ancient Egypt.
Tutankhamen
World's second largest continent.
Africa
A rock bed piled high in a river creating small waterfalls.
Cataracts.
World's first paperlike material.
Papyrus
The irrigation device used by the Egyptians.
Shadoof
Monument with the head of a man and the body, legs, and paws of a lion that stands near the pyramids.
Sphinx
The king who united Upper and Lower Egypt.
Menes
Mountain
A flat or level area of land.
Plain
Ancient Egyptian writing using pictures to represent objects.
Heiroglyphics
The key to unlocking ancient Egyptian writing.
Rosetta Stone
The area near Thebes where the tombs of many pharaohs have been found.
Valley of the Kings
The first pharaoh.
Akhenaton
Low land between hills or mountains.
Valley
A buildup of loose sand and soil at the mouth of a river.
Delta
Second in comman to the Egyptian king.
Vizier
One reason why Egypt declined in war (not kings).
They had no iron weapons.
A tall, pointed pillar representing the sun god Ra.
Obelisk
The only woman pharaoh in ancient Egypt.
Hatshepsut
A highland plain.
Plateau
Highest mountain in Africa.
Kilimanjaro