Ancient Egypt Vocabulary

The northern region of ancient Egypt

a group of countries under a single authority

king of upper Egypt united the two kingdoms of upper and lower Egypt 1st pharaoh

The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt

a tall reed that grows in the Nile delta

an ancient Egyptian name for an area of Africa south of Egypt

an ancient Egyptian writing system

mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake

The world's longest river

the act of making or becoming a single unit

an ancient region of northeastern Africa on the Nile

the way people manage money and resources for the production of goods and services

flat, low-lying land built up from soil carried downstream by a river

the state of being under the control of another person

an ancient city in Upper Egypt that became capital of New Kingdom

an African state that developed along the upper reaches of the Nile

First female pharaoh

a journey organized for a particular purpose

people trained to write using the earliest forms of writing

the southern part of ancient Egypt

supplying land with water through a network of canals

a king of ancient Egypt, considered a god

diagram that shows a person's place in society

new kingdom pharaoh who drove the Hyksos out of the Nile Delta

Egyptian pharaoh who built the great pyramid