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