Chapter 3: Ancient Egypt and Nubia

a triangular area of soil at the mouth of a river

• delta

• silt

• papyrus

a mixture of soil and small rocks

• delta

• papyrus

• silt

________ was a valuable crop that was used to make paper.

• papyrus

• silt

• cataracts

waterfalls

• papyrus

• cataracts

• delta

Pick a supporting detail for the main idea:

"Even though the Nile flooded, it was important to the Egyptians".

• The Egyptians were polytheistic

• Six cataracts broke up the Nile

• Without the Nile, people would not have been able to grow crops

What two kingdoms were unified?

• Menes

• Upper Egypt

• Manetho

• Lower Egypt

Pharaohs were seen as gods and kings

• true

• false

No one has been able to decode hieroglyphics

• true

• false

There are most likely no records of Kings before the third dynasty because

• they washed away in a flood

• the two kingdoms unified

• Manetho began keeping records

writing based on pictures

• pyramids

• mummy

• hieroglyphics