Vocabulary 1
a dead body kept from rotting by use of chemicals and wrapped in cloth
What is a mummy?
in the direction against the flow of a river, the upper part of the river
What is upstream?
Each July, the Nile would spill over its banks a cause a great one of these
What was a flood?
The king who united Upper and Lower Egypt and became the first Pharaoh
Who was King Menes?
money paid to support a government
What is a tax<
a king of ancient Egypt
What is a pharaoh?
The Nile flows in this direction
What is North?
The name given to the most famous pyramid. Hint Tony the Tiger would have liked its name.
What is the Great Pyramid?
a writing paper the Egyptians made from a water plant
What is papyrus?
a system of writing using pictures or symbols to represent objects, ideas or sounds
What is hieroglyphics?
the south part of Egypt was upstream so it had his name
What was Upper Egypt?
The name given to the "boy" pharaoh Tutankhamen whose tomb had a fortune in gold artifacts
Who was King Tut?
a grave, usually enclosed in stone or cement
What is a Tomb?
a water plant that the Egyptians used to make writing paper
What is papyrus?
Because the northern part of the Nile was downstream it had this name
What was Lower Egypt?
The stone that was used to translate the ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics
What was the Rosetta Stone?
dry, sandy land with little or no plant life
What is a desert?
a huge stone structure with a square base and 4 triangular sides
What is a pyramid?
The sea that is north of Egypt
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The period of time when the pyramids were built
What was 2650 B.C.-1637 B.C.?