1. Ancient Egypt Vocabulary

2. Menes
King of Upper Egypt who overthrew the king of Lower Egypt and unified Egypt.

3. Unification
The joining of separate parts, such as kingdoms, into one.

4. Pharaoh
The title used by the rulers of ancient Egypt . At first the word pharaoh meant “where the king lived”, however after time it was known as the title of the king of Egypt. The first pharaoh is Menes.

5. Old Kingdom
Lasted from 2700B.C. E. to 2200B.C. E. The time when early pharaohs worked to unify Egypt.

6. Memphis
Located in Lower Egypt, Menes made this the capital of Egypt.

7. Mummification
Is when they preserve a pharaohs’ body then wrapped them in cloth. It was done to preserve the body by embalming and drying.

8. Khufu
Pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid in about 2600 BCE. It took about 22 years to build.

9. Hieroglyphics
Symbols or signs that stand for words or letters

10. Pyramids
Huge stone structure that were built as tombs, or burial places, for the pharaohs.

11. Papyrus
A kind of paper made from papyrus, a reed plant growing along the Nile River, that the ancient Egyptians used for writing.

12. Rosetta Stone
A group of soldiers found this stone near the city of Rosetta in Egypt. It has the same passage carved in three kinds of writing:
Demotic (late Egypt)
Ancient Greek
Hieroglyphics

13. Economy
Making Bread
The way a country manages money and resources for the production of goods and services.

14. Label your blank Map
Nile River
Red Sea
Delta
Upper Egypt
Lower Egypt

15. Why did Egyptians preserve the bodies of the dead through mummification?

16. Cataract
Steep rapids in a river. (very shallow and rocky) Hard for boats to pass through.

17. 6 Cataracts of the Nile River
Label them on your
map, by drawing a
line.
Why did Cataracts make it
hard for Egyptians to
trade from North to South?

18. Social Pyramid Triangle shaped chart that shows the rank of people in a society

19. The White Nile Flows North from Lake Victoria

20. The Blue Nile
Flows northeast out of Lake Tana

21. Nilometer

22. Expedition
Group of people who go on a trip for a specific reasons/purpose.
Travel up and down the Nile River to trade with other cities.