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A mixture of tiny bits of soil and rock carried and depostied by a river
What is silt
100
The world's longest river, which flows northward through East Africa into the Mediterranean Sea
What is Nile River
100
The ancient Egyptian system of writing that used symbols to stand for objects, ideas or sounds
What is hieroglyphics
100
Egyptian pharaoh who ruled from age 7-17. His tomb remained nearly untouched until it was discovered in 1922
Who is Tutankhamen
100
The watering of dry land by menas of canals or pipes
What is irrigation
200
The title used by the rulers of ancient Egypt
What is pharaoh
200
An ancient city in Upper Egypt that became the capital of the New Kingdom
What is Thebes
200
A map that shows a big area in less detail
What is a small-scale map
200
One of the few women Egyptian pharaohs, organized a trade expedition to Egypt's southern neighbor Punt
Who is Hatshepsut
200
A group of people who to on a trip for a specific reason
What is expedition
300
A map that provides many details about a small area
What is large-scaled map
300
An ancient Egyptian name for an area of Africa south of Egypt
What is Punt
300
The flat, fan-shaped land made of silt deposited at the mouth of a river
What is Delta
300
King of Upper Egypt who united upper and lower Egypt
Who is Menes
300
The way people manage money and resources for the production of goods and services
What is economy
400
a professional writer who kept records and copied letters and official documents
What is a scribe
400
The capital of Egypt's Old Kingdom located on the Nile near present day Cairo.
What is Memphis
400
The joining of separate parts, such as kingdoms into one
What is unification
400
Egyptian pharaoh who buil the Great Pyramid
Who is Khufu
400
A unit of measure on a map, that is used to represent distance on Earth
What is scale
500
a diagram illustrating the divisions within a culture
What is social pyramid
500
Westof Thebes in ancient Egypt, the burial place of 30 New Kingdom Pharaohs
What is Valley of the Kings.
500
A group of lands and people ruled by one government
What is an empire
500
New Kingdom Pharaoh who drove the Hyksos out of the Nile Dental and reunited in Egypt
Who is Ahmose
500
A kind of paper made from papyrus, a reed plant growing along the Nile that the ancient Egyptians used for writing.
What is papyrus