Egypt Vocabulary

Belief in many gods

• Monotheism

• sarcophagus

• Polytheism

• Lower Egypt

a large stone coffin

• sarcophagus

• Rosetta stone

• Lower Egypt

• Upper Egypt

people trained to write using the earliest forms of writing before literacy was widespread

• Kush

• Scribes

• Dynasty

• Pharaoh

government in which power is in the hands of a single person, often a king or queen

• Nile River

• obelisk

• pyramid

• Monarchy

a ranking system in which each thing is placed above or below others

• pyramid

• Monarchy

• Hieroglyphics

• hierachy

A series of rulers from the same family

• Dynasty

• Kush

• drought

• Scribes

a huge stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics, Greek, and a later form of Egyptian that allowed historians to understand Egyptian writing.

• Mummification

• canopic jars

• sarcophagus

• Rosetta stone

an ancient Nubian kingdom whose rulers controlled Egypt between 2000 and 1000 B.C.

• Dynasty

• Pharaoh

• Kush

• Scribes

the southern part of ancient Egypt

• Nile River

• Upper Egypt

• sarcophagus

• Lower Egypt

Huge, triangular shaped burial tombs of Egyptian pharaohs built during the Old Kingdom

• Nile River

• Monarchy

• obelisk

• pyramid