Egypt Vocabulary

A waterfall or rapids in a river

• Delta

• Cataract

• Pharaoh

• Pyramid

A fan or triangle shaped area of silt near where a river flows into a sea

• Cataract

• Bureaucrat

• Theocracy

• Delta

A bucket attached to a long pole used to transfer water from the river to storage basins

• Shadoof

• Embalming

• Delta

• Papyrus

A reed plant that grows wild along the Nile and is used to make paper

• Hieroglyphics

• Papyrus

• Pharaoh

• Theocracy

An Egyptian writing system made up of a combination of picture symbols and sound symbols

• Papyrus

• Hieroglyphics

• Dynasty

• Metallurgy

A line of rulers from one family

• Embalming

• Theocracy

• Pharaoh

• Dynasty

A government led by religious leaders

• Bureaucrat

• Pharaoh

• Theocracy

• Delta

Ruler of ancient Egypt

• Pharaoh

• Bureaucrat

• Embalming

• Theocracy

A government official whose job it is to help the pharaoh

• Theocracy

• Pharaoh

• Bureaucrat

• Cataract

The process of treating a body to keep it from decaying

• embalming

• delta

• pharaoh

• bureaucrat