Egypt Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
mummy | body that has been dried so so it won't decay |
silt | fine soil deposited by a river |
black land | land by the Nile River good for farming |
Queen Hatshepsut | Expanded trade, built monuments(obelisk) |
New Kingdom | Strong Pharaohs ruled |
hieroglyphs | Pictures that stand for different words or sounds. Egyptian form of writing. |
What was a cataract? | a waterfall |
red land | land away from the Nile River that was the desert land |
King of Egypt | Pharaoh |
Ramses II | extended Egypt's territory, negotiated a peace treaty, and built a monument to himself |
scribes | people whose job it was to write and keep records |
King of Egypt | Pharaoh |
King Djoser | Had the Step Pyramid built |
Egyptian economic activities | farming, mining, fishing, hunting, trading |
dynasty | line of rulers from the same family |
Khufu | Had the Great Pyramid built |
delta | the area near a river's mouth where the water deposits fine soil |
shaduf | tool used to collect water |
Old Kingdom | pyramids were built |
papyrus | Egyptian paper-like material |
Middle Kingdom | Invasions from the Hyksos |
Akhenaton | Replaced worship of old gods with that of the sun god, Aton |
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