Old world, history, and geography fourth edition, abeka chapter 7

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Joseph

A Hebrew, who had been sent to Egypt to be a slave, became a visier of Egypt also mentioned in the Bible

Shadoof

A long pole with a bucket tied on one end to dip water from the Nile

Scroll

A long roll of paper that we call a

Famine

A period of serious storage of food

Delta

A piece of land that has slowly built up over the years by the deposit of loose sand and soil at the mouth of a river

Scribe

A secretary to the ruler, or 2 L in the army, the core or the temple

Queen Hatchepsut

Ancient Egypt's only woman pharaoh

Upper Egypt

Because it was an upstream away from the mouth of the Nile, which part of Egypt was this.

Sinai peninsula

Between the two fingers of the Red Sea is the

Red sea

East of Egypt is the

Gift of the Nile

Egypt has been called the

Ra

Egypt's sun god

Red land, black land

For this reason, ancient Egyptian called their land

King tut

His tomb is more famous than he is men who have studied him estimate that he became king when he was 10 years old

Valley of the kings

In a very rocky valley on the West Bank of the Nile river, near the city of famous, lies, the blank, the pharaohs who ruled between they used this valley as a cemetery

Flood season, planting season and harvest season

Name three seasons that the Egyptian's had

Hieroglyphics

Pictures actually stood for the objects pictures

Great Sphinx

The blank has the head of a man in the body, legs and paws of a lion. This monument is called.

Cat

The blank was considered, scarred and worshiped by the Egyptian's

Visier

The blank was in charge of everything

Cairo

The great pyramid is located near the modern city of

Nile river

The longest river in the world if Egypt did not have this river, it would be a desert

Great pyramid

The most famous and largest of the pyramids still standing today is the

Obelisks

These monuments were tall, pointed pillars, called blank to worship their sun God

Lower Egypt

This area was also known as red land in ancient days. The area around the Delta was very swampy with salt T lakes.

Palette

To hold their paints

White

What color clothes did most Egyptians wear?

Red crown

What color crown did the lower Egypt wear?

White crown

What color crown did the upper Egypt wear?

Great house

What does the word pharaoh mean?

Cataract

What is a large bed of rocks piled in the river that produces small waterfalls

Sahara desert

What is the largest desert in the world?

Israel, Egypt

What two places were on both sides of the Sinai peninsula?

Rosetta Stone

What was the key to unlocking the meaning of the ancient Egyptian language?

Sinai peninsula

What was the land bridge located on the western edge of the continent of Asia where it meets with the continent of Africa?

Akhenaton

Who is the first Egypt pharaoh

King Menes

Who is the first king that united lower and upper Egypt?

King Khufu

Who was the great pyramid built for?

To reflect The suns heat

Why did Egyptian's wear the color white?

Land bridge

You can see why some people referred this piece of land as a


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