Ancient Egypt Vocabulary

1. An ancient region in the Nile River Valley, on the site of present-day  southern Egypt and northern Sudan

• Egypt

• Nubia

• cataract

• Africa

a large waterfall; any strong flood or rush of water

• delta

• silt

• regent

• cataract

1. a plain at the mouth of a river, formed when sediment is deposited by flowing water

• silt

• cataract

• delta

• papyrus

Fine soil found on river bottoms

• Nubia

• silt

• delta

• Thutmose III

1.  the title of the kings of ancient Egypt

• pharaoh

• regent

• astronomer

• absolute power

a series of rulers from the same family or ethnic group

• regent

• dynasty

• pharaoh

• absolute power

1. complete control over someone or something

• absolute power

• pharaoh

• mummy

• regent

Someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule

• King Tutankhamun

• pharaoh

• regent

• parent

Life after death

• mummy

• Giza

• after life

• papyrus

1. A dead body preserved in life-like condition

• mummy

• regent

• pharaoh

• astronomer