Ancient Egypt Vocab

a waterfall or rapids in a river

• envoy

• delta

• cataracts

• natron

a fan-shaped area of silt near where a river flows into the sea

• delta

• cataracts

• natron

• hieroglyphics

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

• natron

• embalming

• papyrus

• shadoof

a reed plant that grew wild along the Nile and was used to make a form of paper

• trees

• papyrus

• clay

• paper

a writing system made up of a combination of pictures and sound symbols

• mastaba

• cuneiform

• hieroglyphics

• the alphabet

line of rulers from the same family

• pharaoh

• bureaucrat

• theocracy

• dynasty

A government controlled by religious leaders

• bureaucrat

• city-state

• theocracy

• gods

A ruler of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader.

• pharaoh

• king

• ruler

• aristocrat

government official

• dynasty

• incense

• bureaucrat

• theocracy

the process of treating a body to keep it from decaying

• mastaba

• embalming

• mummification

• natron