Vocabulary
Ancient or Old Egypt
Middle Egypt
New Egypt
Miscellaneous
100
This is the area of fertile land at the mouth of a river.
What is Delta?
100
The Old Kingdom ended when these became more powerful then the pharaohs.
What is Government Officials?
100
This is who the Egyptians of the Middle Kingdom mummified after death.
What is everyone?
100
This is what the Egyptians paid the rulers of the New Kingdom, making them rich.
What are tributes?
100
The river in the valley that the Egyptian civilizations developed.
What is The Nile River
200
This is a bowl-like place where Egyptians stored water.
What is a basin
200
The Egyptians of the Old Kingdom built these in which to bury their dead leaders.
What is a tomb?
200
This group of people are who the Egyptians adopted weapons, chariots, and armor.
What is Hyksos?
200
Thutmose III used slaves to build these pointed stone pillars.
What are obelisks?
200
This is the groups of traders that traveled together across the desert.
What is Caravans
300
This is a metal covering that protects the body in battle.
What is amour?
300
These were the gods of ancient Egypt.
Who is Ra and Hopi?
300
(This happened in the Old Kingdom) According to one story, this god-king united Egypt.
What is Menes?
300
This Egyptian ruler built army bases in the lands he controlled.
What is Thutmose III?
300
This is the unit of measurement that Egyptians used to measure things.
What is a cubit?
400
This is the reed from which paper is made.
What is papyrus?
400
These projects helped to unite the people of Upper Egypt.
What is irrigation projects?
400
This is the first group of foreigners to rule Egypt.
What is Hyksos?
400
These are something that Egyptians put on their boats to sail up the Nile River?
What are sails?
400
This is what Egyptians used to irrigate their fields.
What is floodwaters?
500
This is the type of war that involves fighting between people within their own country.
What is a civil war?
500
This broke out in the Old Kingdom, as Egyptians began to fight each other.
What is civil war?
500
This is the time period that Egyptians wants their dead leaders to be comfortable.
What is the afterlife?
500
This is the type of writing used by the Egyptians.
What are Hieroglyphics?
500
This is what historians refer to as "the gift of the Nile."
What is Egypt?
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