Vocabulary
A deposit at the mouth of a river
What is a delta?
Egypt's first pharaoh.
Who is Menes/Narmar?
Egypt is found in this continent.
What is Africa?
The process of mummification often took these many days.
What is 40-70?
The Nile River is about _____________ miles long.
What is 4,000?
Capitol city of the Kush Kingdom.
What is Kerma?
Hierarchy of status in Ancient Egypt.
What is social pyramid.
Pharaohs were thought to be this.
What is a living god.
The southern part of ancient Egypt was called this.
What is Upper Egypt?
These statues to help with tasks were included in many pharaoh's tombs.
What are ushabti?
There are many of these steep rapids along the Nile river.
What are cataracts?
One of the products found in Nubia that was used in trade.
What are gold, jewels?
This process was used to preserve bodies previous to burial.
What is mummification?
She was one of Egypt's only female pharaohs.
Who is Queen Hatshepsut?
He was the "architect" of the first Egyptian pyramid.
Who is Imhotep?
This naturally found mineral would be used in mummification.
What is natron?
These two rivers flow together to form the Nile.
What are the Blue and White Nile?
Kush's rulers moved their capital to this city.
What is Meroe?
To bring together different parts, such as upper and Lower Egypt.
What is unification?
Egyptians believed all pharaohs came from this god, who united the two Egypts.
Who is Horus?
This religion worships many gods and goddesses.
What is polytheism
These were the only people to be mummified in the Old Kingdom.
What are pharaohs?
The Nile River empties into this Sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This group conquered the Kush empire 50 years after it took over Egypt.
Who are the Assyrians?
A reed plant that grew wild along the Nile.
What is papyrus?
Pharaohs wore this crown, that showed the unification of Egypt.
What is the double crown of Egypt?
The Nile flooded every year, bringing rich soil called this.
What is silt?
This cloth was used as wrapping during mummification.
What is linen?
This technology helped lift water from the Nile onto the fields.
What is a shadoof?
This group could rule in Kush, as well as hold high positions in the social pyramid.
What are women?
A style of writing using symbols that stood for sounds, and letters.
What is a hierarchy?
His tomb was found undisturbed, sharing his rule as the "boy" king.
Who is Tutankhamen?
This object help unlock the mystery of hieroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
He greeted those who had just died at the gate to the next world.
Who is Osiris?
This method allowed the Egyptians to control the amount of water given to crops.
What is irrigation?
This king of Kush invaded Egypt, and eventually ruled it all.
Who is Piye?