HCLA Grade 6 World History Ch. 5 Vocab Review

a government official

a line of rulers from one family

A waterfall or rapids in a river

a writing system made up of a combination of pictures and sound symbols

ruler of ancient Egypt

a bucket attached to a long pole used to transfer river water to storage basins

great stone tomb built for an Egyptian pharaoh

a government representative to another country

woven cloth

a fan shaped area of silt near where a river flows into the sea

a flat grassland, sometimes with scattered trees, in a tropical          or subtropical region

the process of treating a body to keep it from decaying

government by religious leaders

a material that produces a pleasant smell when burned

a reed plant that grew wild along the Nile