Chapter 5: Ancient Egypt and Kush Vocabulary Quiz

A government official

• bureaucrat

• cataract

• textile

• pyramid

A waterfall or rapid in a river

• delta

• savanna

• cataract

• embalming

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

• cataract

• shadoof

• papyrus

• delta

A line of rulers from one family

• bureaucrat

• dynasty

• pharaoh

• envoy

The process of treating a body to prevent it from decaying

• shadoof

• pyramid

• embalming

• papyrus

a government representative to another country

• bureaucrat

• pharaoh

• dynasty

• envoy

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

• Hieroglyphics

• incense

• papyrus

• pyramid

Ruler of ancient Egypt

• bureaucrats

• dynasty

• pharaoh

• envoy

A great stone tomb for an Egyptian Pharaoh

• pyramid

• delta

• papyrus

• savanna

a flat grassland, sometimes with scattered trees, in a tropical or subtropical region

• delta

• shadoof

• savanna

• textile