Pharaohs
A pharaoh who ruled from about the age of 9 to 19. His tomb remained untouched until 1922 when it was discovered.
Who is Tutankhamun?
the process of watering of dry land by means of canals or pipes.
What is Irrigation?
a mixture of tiny bits of rock and soil deposited by a river that would have been found in Lower Egypt.
What is silt? (black soil also acceptable)
the practice of one person owning another person.
What is slavery?
A pharaoh who established more trade and was "wiped" out of history by stepson after death.
Who is Hatshepsut?
a reed plant that grows along the Nile, which can be used to make paper.
What is Papyrus?
fertile flat fan shaped land made of silt left behind as the river drains into a larger body of water.
What is a Delta?
the title used by the rulers of ancient Egypt.
What is pharaoh?
the pharaoh that ordered the building of the Great Pyramid.
Who is Khufu?
a system of writing that was made up of about 800 picture-signs.
What is Hieroglyphics?
the southern area of ancient Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
the way people MANAGE MONEY and resources for the production of goods and services.
What is economy?
the pharaoh that unified Lower and Upper Egypt and became the first pharaoh.
Who is Menes?
People who went to school in ancient Egypt, starting at about the age of ten.
Who are boys? (Or scribes is acceptable)
the direction the Nile River flows from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt.
What is North?
The name of a person who kept records and recorded stories.
What is a scribe?
The last pharoah of the Ptolemic Dynasty and the Egyptian Empire.
Who is Cleopatria VII?
What is vizier?
The civilization that conquered Egypt and brought about the downfall of the ancient Egyptian Empire.
What is Greece? (Alexander the Great)
the joining of separate parts of a civilization or country into one.
What is unification?