Geography Terms
Terms
People
Map Skills
Misc.
100
low land between hills or mountains
valley
100
period of shortage of food
famine
100
Biblical man who became vizier of Egypt
Joseph
100
Sinai Peninsula
2
100
Second largest continent
Africa
200
flat or level area of land
plain
200
paperlike material used in Egypt
papyrus
200
the first pharaoh
Akhenaton
200
Upper Egypt
6
200
"Great House"
pharaoh
300
a deep narrow valley with steep sides
canyon
300
a body wrapper and preserved for eternal life
mummy
300
the only woman pharaoh
Hatshepsut
300
Thebes
7
300
a tall, pointed pillar representing the sun god Ra
obelisk
400
a highland plain
plateau
400
rock bed piled high in a river creating small waterfalls
cataracts
400
the pharaoh's whose tomb revealed much about ancient Egypt
Tutankhamen
400
Memphis
3
400
ancient Egyptian writing using pictures to represent objects
hieroglyphics
500
pieces of land built up over many years by the deposit of soil at the mouth of the river
delta
500
irrigation device used to draw water from the Nile
shadoof
500
The king who united Upper and Lower Egypt
Menes
500
Lower Egypt
4
500
Area of Thebes where many tombs have been found
Valley of the Kings