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Vocab 2
Egyptian Culture
Nile River
Egypt
100
Rock-filled rapids
What are cataracts?
100
Title used by kings of Egypt
What is pharaoh?
100
Picturelike symbols
What are hieroglyphs?
100
Most powerful kingdom in Nubia
What is Kerma?
100
A life after death
What is an afterlife?
200
Fine soil found on river bottoms
What is silt?
200
A series of rulers from the same family or ethnic group
What is a dynasty?
200
An early form of paper made from a reed found in the marshy areas of the Nile delta
What is papyrus?
200
An ancient region in the Nile River valley
What is Nubia?
200
The preserved body of a dead person
What is a mummy?
300
A plain at the mouth of a river
What is a delta?
300
Someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule
What is a regent?
300
3 different types of writing: Greek, hieroglyphics, and Egyptian script were found on this
What is the Rosetta Stone?
300
Ancient Egyptians called their land this because of the dark soil
What is "the black land"?
300
The region between the first and second cataracts, where it rained very little
What is Lower Nubia?
400
Complete control over people
What is absolute power?
400
A mineral or a combination of minerals mined for the production of metals
What is ore?
400
Practice of creating medicines from plants
What is herbalism?
400
Name the two main sources of the Nile
What is the Blue Nile and the White Nile?
400
The Great Pyramid was built in the ancient city
What is Giza?
500
Workers skilled at crafting items by hand
What are artisans?
500
Scientists who study the stars and other objects in the sky
What are astronomers?
500
Name the Egyptian social class pyramid...
What is pharaoh, upper class (priests, members of pharaoh's court, and nobles), middle class (merchants and skilled workers), peasants, slaves
500
The region between the second and sixth Nile cataracts, where people could plant in the fall and harvest in the spring
What is Upper Nubia?
500
Huge buildings with four sloping triangle-shaped sides
What are pyramids?