THIS WAS A VERY ADVANCED CIVILIZATION ON THE NILE RIVER IN NORTHERN AFRICA
EGYPT
CAPITAL CITY OF ANCIENT EGYPT
MEMPHIS
CAPITAL CITY OF EGYPT DURING THE MIDDLE KINGDOM
THEBES
WORLD’S LONGEST RIVER ITS SOURCE IS LAKE VICTORIA
NILE RIVER
KING UNITED UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT INTO ONE COUNTRY
KING MENES
A RULING FAMILY
DYNASTY
WHEN THERE IS NO GOVERNMENT AND THERE IS CHAOS
ANARCHY
A PERIOD OF PROSPERITY AND CULTURAL ADVANCEMENT IN EGYPT
GOLDEN AGE OF EGYPT
A LARGE STONE STRUCTURE USED AS A TOMBS FOR EGYPT’S RULERS
PYRAMID
A STAR THAT MARKED THE BEGINNING OF THE FLOOD SEASON THE EGYPTIAN CALENDAR REVOLVED AROUND THE FLOOD SEASON
SIRIUS
A COUNTRY IS RULED BY A KING OR QUEEN
MONARCHY
HEAD GOD OF THE EGYPTIANS SUN GOD
AMON-RA
THIS TRIBE INVADED AND CONQUERED EGYPT
HYKSOS
SMALL WAGON WITH TWO WHEELS AND DRAWN BY HORSES
CHARIOT
WHEN THE RELIGIOUS LEADER IS ALSO THE GOVERNMENT LEADER
THEOCRACY
THE BELIEF IN MANY GODS
POLYTHEISM
THE BELIEF IN ONE GOD
MONOTHEISM
EGYPTIAN PICTURE WRITING
HIEROGLYPHICS
WHEN A COUNTRY CONQUERS OTHER LANDS AND RULES IT AS A PART OF THAT COUNTRY
EMPIRE
EGYPTIAN PAPER MADE OUT OF CRUSHED REEDS
PAPYRUS
A SOCIAL ORDER WHERE PEOPLE ARE RANKED ACCORDING TO BIRTH, JOB OR WEALTH
CLASS SYSTEM
A PHARAOH WHO BELIEVED THAT THE EGYPTIANS WORSHIPPED TOO MANY GODS HE BELIEVED THAT THE EGYPTAINS SHOULD WORSHIP ONLY ONE GOD (AMON-RA)
AKHENATON
THE PRESERVATION OF DEAD BODIES
MUMMIFICATION
2,700 BC TO 2,200 BC EGYPT
OLD KINGDOM
2,200 BC TO 1,800 BC EGYPT
MIDDLE KINGDOM
1,600 BC TO 945 BC EGYPT
NEW KINGDOM
GOVERNMENT LEADER WHO IS ALSO CONSIDERED THE HIGH PRIEST
PHARAOH