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Nile River
Vocabulary
100
This person can be found at the top of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
Who is the pharaoh?
100
This item is what ancient Egyptians used to write upon.
What is papyrus?
100
The longest river in the world
What is The Nile?
100

Surrounded by natural barriers as a way to provide protection

What is Sahara desert, Mediterranean Sea and Sinai mountain

100
This invention helped farmers with irrigation
What is a shadoof?
200
Ancient Egyptian religion is this type.
What is polytheistic or polytheism?
200
Ancient Egyptians used this to communicate on papyrus.
What is hieroglyphics?
200
This large body of water is to the north of Egypt
and provided protection from that direction.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200

Two main reasons the Nile river was important for ancient Egyptian

a) What is transportation and Agriculture?

b) What is drinking and bathing?

200
A line of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
300

During what kingdom were the pyramids at Giza and the Sphinx built?

Old Kingdom

300
In addition to making paper, papyrus was also used in this manner.
What is making sandals, baskets, and rafts.
*If you named one of these items, you get the points.
300

This is a geographic formation where the Nile River

meets the Mediterranean Sea.

What is the Nile Delta (or river delta)?

300

Time of rising flood water and allowed Egyptian people to build

What is inundation? or What is Shait?

300

It is made up of rock and mineral particles that are larger than clay but smaller than sand..

What is silt?

400
Farmers used this annual occurrence to help them grow their produce.
What is the annual flooding of the Nile River?
400
Ancient Egyptians were very good with medicine and science.
This means of preserving their dead is one example of
their skills.
What is mummification or embalming.
400
This extreme geographic land form is to the west of Egypt.
What is the Western Desert? * Sahara Desert is also correct, but you need to know Western Desert and Eastern Desert.
400

Return of water to the Nile river and ancient Egyptian used the season to plant crops and trapped water for irrigation

What is Emergence? or What is Piruit?

400
There are many of these massive
constructions throughout Egypt.
What are pyramids?
500

Ancient and modern Egyptian farmers still use this

technology in their farming.

What is irrigation?

500
This is one of the mathematical innovations
of the ancient Egyptians still in use today.
What is the 365 day calendar
... or... the base 10 number system?

(Either answer works, you should know both!)

Our textbook also mentions geometry.
500

help assit in farming 

domesticated animals ?

500

Season to harvest in Ancient Egypt time

What is drought? What is shemu?

500

This geographic land form is to the

east of the Nile River and is still part of Egypt.

What is the Sinai Peninsula?