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ruler or king in Ancient Egypt
What is a pharaoh?
100
ancient region in the Nile River Valley; site of present day southern Egypt and northern Sudan
What is Nubia?
100
place where pharaohs and other rich officials were buried during Ancient Egyptian times
What is a pyramid?
100
longest river in the world; it is located in northern Africa
What is the Nile River?
100
fine soil found at the bottom of a river
What is silt?
200
person who rules for a child until the child is old enough
What is a regent?
200
site of the Great Pyramid; ancient Egyptian city
What is Giza?
200
dead body preserved in a life-like manner
What is a mummy?
200
plain at the mouth of a river formed when sediment is deposited by flowing water (it is shaped like a triange)
What is delta?
200
life after death
What is an afterlife?
300
group or series of rulers from the same family or ethnic group
What is a dynasty?
300
region of ancient Nubia between the first and second Nile cataracts
What is Lower Nubia?
300
the ruler that the Great Pyramid was built for
Who is Pharaoh Kufu?
300
minerals used to produce metals
What is ore?
300
pictures and other symbols that stand for ideas, things, or sounds
What are hieroglyphs?
400
complete control over someone or something; pharaohs enjoyed this right
What is absolute power?
400
region of ancient Nubia between the second and sixth cataract
What is Upper Nubia?
400
during this kingdom, building projects and irrigation systems were constructed
What is the middle kingdom ?
400
this protected Egypt from invaders
What is the desert?
400
early form of paper made from reeds found near the Nile
What is papyrus?
500
the manner in which the kingdoms of ancient Egypt are separated
What are the old, middle, and new kingdoms?
500
This stands in front of the pyramids at Giza
What is the Sphinx?
500
It was one hundred forty meters high and took twenty years to build.
What is the Great Pyramid?
500
a scientist who studied the stars and other objects in the sky
What is astronomer?