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Egyptian Vocabulary
A Mighty River
Egypt's Government
Egyptian Farming
Egyptian Life
100
Wild rapids formed by narrow cliffs and boulders
What is cataracts?
100
The Nile River provided this type of food for the Egyptians.
What is fish?
100
By 4000 B.C. Egypt was made up of two kingdoms.
What are Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt?
100
Farmers planted these types of crops:
What is wheat, barely and flax seeds.
100
Egyptians used papyrus to make these items:
What is sandals, river rafts, baskets or paper?
200
A reed plant that grew along the shores of the Nile
What is papyrus
200
The world's longest river, which is located in Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
200
The King Narmer was also known as
Who is Menes?
200
In order to irrigate their crops the Egyptians did any of these following activities:
What is dig basins or bowl shaped holes, or dig canals, or build dikes, or use shadoofs?
200
These natural barriers protected Egypt from invasion by outsiders and allowed the civilization to grow and prosper.
What is cataracts, deserts, and marshes?
300
A line of rulers form one family.
What is a dynasty
300
The Nile River began as two separate rivers.
What are the Blue Nile and the White Nile.
300
Narmer did this two the two kingdoms by 3100 B.C.
What is united the kingdoms?
300
Harvesting wheat or turning it into __________was vital to the Ancient Egyptians.
What is bread?
300
Egypt was divided into these social classes based on wealth and power.
What is Upper class, middle class, and lower class?
400
The largest desert in the world.
What is the Sahara Desert
400
The Nile river was also used to do this to crops.
What is irrigate crops?
400
Narmer wore this on his head to symbolize the kingdom's unity.
What is a double crown?
400
The process of harvesting wheat and making bread began with the men cutting the wheat with this object.
What is a sickle?
400
On the top of the social class pyramid was the
What is the pharaoh?
500
An area of fertile soil.
What is the delta
500
The Egyptians relied on the Nile river for these five things:
What is farming, cooking cleaning, drinking and bathing?
500
The government was needed to direct this activity:
What is build and maintain irrigation systems, or store or distribute surplus grain, or settle disputes over land?
500
The women gathered the wheat into_____________
What is bundles?
500
Women had more rights than females in most early civilizations. They had the following rights in Egyptian society.
What is to own property, to get divorces, to buy and sell goods, make wills, and perform religious ceremonies?