Egypt Vocabulary

What is the name of a dangerous fast moving water?

• Papyrus

• Cataracts

• Delta

• Theocracy

fan-shaped region created when soil is deposited at the end of a river

• Delta

• Pharaoh

• Menes

• Pyramid

ruler of Egypt

• Pharaoh

• Menes

• Pyramid

• Mummy

a stone tomb with triangle-shaped sides that come together to form a point on top

• Pyramid

• Mummy

• Afterlife

• Old Kingdom

A series of rulers from the same family is called a

• dynasty

• vizier

• hieroglyph

• scribe

What is a government in which someone is the political leader & religious leader

• Theocracy

• Incense

• Bureaucrat

• Pharaoh

Egyptian style of writing

• Hieroglyphics

• Cuneiform

• Arabic

• English

Protecting the bodies for the afterlife or decay

• Mummies

• Embalming

• Textile

• Envoy

a reed plant on the nile

• Papyrus

• Delta

• Lotus

• Metallurgy

a material burned for its pleasant smell

• Envoy

• Incense

• Cataract

• Savannah