Ancient Egypt

Rapids along a river

• noble

• cataract

• ka

• obelisk

Area around the Nile covered with rich silt

• cataract

• pharaoh

• Red Land

• Black Land

Title used by Egyptian rulers

• pharaoh

• Ka

• dynasty

• obelisk

Dry, lifeless desert beyond the Nile

• Black Land

• Red Land

• Rosetta Stone

• sphinx

Series of rulers from the same family

• pharaoh

• dynasty

• noble

• delta

Rich and powerful person

• Ka

• obelisk

• noble

• afterlife

Huge triangular tomb built by the Egyptians

• delta

• Red Land

• Rosetta Stone

• pyramid

Ancient Egyptian writing system that used picture symbols

• sphinx

• Rosetta Stone

• hieroglyphics

• papyrus

Object inscribed with hieroglyphics that allowed historians to understand Egyptian writing

• papyrus

• obelisk

• Rosetta Stone

• delta

Imaginary creature with a human head and the body of a lion

• obelisk

• sphinx

• cataract

• papyrus