Unit 3: Ancient Egyptian Vocabulary Review

What is another name for 'a god'?

What term refers to the several rapids and waterfalls on the Nile River?

To preserve a body after death is to do what?

What is the wide flat expanse of land where rivers overflow?

What was built as a final resting place for their pharaoh during the Old Kingdom period?

Which term describes the climate of ancient Egypt?

What is the nutrient-rich sediment left from the flooding Nile that helped replenish the soil?

Which term describes Egypt's belief in many gods?

What was given to a ruler from another ruler as an act of submission?

What was the Egyptian writing system called?

Egypt is protected on three sides by what barren area of land with an arid climate? 

What was a central belief of the Egyptians' religion after someone died?

How did Egyptians refer to their kings?

What technological advancement of the Egyptians allowed for the watering of crops in the arid climate?

What was the special embalming practice that was mastered by the Egyptians?

What is the river reed that Egyptians made paper and sandals from?

What was the middle level social class job of a person that could read and write in Egypt?

What is a smaller river that flows into or joins a larger river?

What is another word for the "flooding" of the Nile River?

What was a tall, needle-like monument topped with a small pyramid made by the Egyptians? 

What was the triangular shape of rich farmland at the Nile's mouth called?

What is a family line that rules over a civilization for several generations?