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Egypt Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An artificial waterway used for travel or irrigation | canal |
| To shrivel up and dry the body in order to preserve it, to provide a spirit a body in the afterlife | mummification |
| A huge desert stretching across most of North Africa | Sahara |
| A dry region that receives little rainfall and cannot support much vegetation | desert |
| well-suited for high production of crops | fertile |
| picture-like symbols used as a form of writing for Egypt | heiroglyphics |
| a person trained to write or use hieroglyphics | scribe |
| a fertile spot where water is found in a desert | oasis |
| a paper-like material made from a reed plant | papyrus |
| a system of measuring angles, shapes, and spaces | Geometry |
| a belief that many gods control aspects of nature and society | Polytheism |
| a massive Egyptian monument with a rectangular base and triangular sides that meet at a point. built as tombs for the kings, had many chambers with things kings might need in the afterlife | Pyramid |
| a large waterfall | cataract |
| the science of healing the human body | medicine |
| a government ruled by a priest or by religious law; similar to a dictatorship and a monarchy | theocracy |
| a man-made system used to move water to where it can be used for growing crops | irrigation |
| a fan-shaped landform that forms at the mouth of a river | delta |
| a powerful Egyptian king, was also leader and highest social class of all | pharaoh |
| fine sand or soil carried by running water and deposited on land | silt |
| the study of stars and other celestial objects | Astronomy |
| a system of measuring and identifying time in terms of days, weeks, months, years, and seasons | calendar |
| the way social classes were oranized in Egypt | occupation (job) |
| could earn freedom overtime and were often prisoners of war | slaves |
| poor, dependent on leader, lowest class | farmers |
| chief economic advisor, ruling class | vizier |
| record keeper in the middle class | scribe |
| educated only in their trade and part of middle class | educated only in their trade and part of middle class |
| lion with the head of a pharoah used for unknown purposes | Sphinx |
| focused on economic policies that helped emphasize (stress) trade | Queen Hatshepsut |
| tomb was found with funerary objects still in place | King Tut |
| helped Egypt grow with military conquests | Ramses the Great |
| helped to control Egypt's trade with the rest of Africa and adopt many Egyptian cultures | Nubia's location |
| Pharaohs had absolute power, developed a strong central government, buried in pyramids | Old Kingdom |
| Pharaohs had moderate power, were expected to be good rulers, buried in hidden tombs | Middle Kingdom |
| Pharaohs became military rulers to gain territories, formed alliances, were buried in hidden vaults | New Kingdom |
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