Chapter 1 Vocabulary
Chapter 2
Vocabulary
Great Places
Famous People
Odds and Ends
100
The southern part of ancient Egypt with stone cliffs and desert sand.
What is Upper Egypt?
100
The joining of separate parts into one.
What is unification?
100
The world's longest river that flows through Africa.
What is the Nile River?
100
The title used by the rulers of ancient Egypt.
What is a pharaoh?
100
A form of technology used to water groups.
What is irrigation?
200
The northern part of ancient Egypt with fertile land.
What is Lower Egypt?
200
A writer in ancient Egypt.
What is a scribe?
200
The body of water the Nile River empties into.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
The pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid.
Who is Khufu?
200
To irrigate fields, farmers often used these two things.
What are canals and pipes?
300
The flat, fan-shaped land made of silt deposited at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
300
The way a country's people manage money and resources for the production of goods and services.
What is an economy?
300
The continent the Nile River is located on.
What is Africa?
300
The pharaoh who wore a double crown to show the unification of Egypt.
Who is Menes?
300
The basis for the ancient Egyptian economy.
What is farming or agriculture?
400
The dry period period of little or no rain.
What is a drought?
400
A system of writing used by the Egyptians made up of about 800 picture-signs.
What is hieroglyphics?
400
Where the most fertile farmland in Egypt is found.
What is the Nile Delta region?
400
The sun god.
Who is Ra?
400
The thing that helped scholars understand hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
500
The watering of land by means of canals or pipes.
What is irrigation?
500
A reed plant that grows along the Nile used to make paper.
What is papyrus?
500
A sea to the east of the Nile River.
What is the Red Sea?
500
The time when Egypt's early pharaohs worked to build unity within the country.
What is the Old Kingdom?
500
Capital of Egypt's Old Kingdom.
What is Memphis?
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