Egypt Vocabulary Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Pharaoh who united upper and lower Egypt also known as Narmer | Menes |
| world's longest river | Nile |
| process developed by the Ancient Egyptians of perserving a person's body after death | embalming |
| a line of rulers that passes from father to son | dynasty |
| steep rapid formed by cliffs and bolders in a river | cataract |
| huge stone structure built by the Ancient Egyptians to serve as a tomb | pyramid |
| an artifact that unlocked the mystery of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing | Rosetta Stone |
| god or goddess | deity |
| gentle and dependable | flooding of the Nile River |
| an embalmed body wrapped in cloth strips | mummy |
| all powerful king of Egypt | pharaoh |
| area of fertile soil at the mouth of a river | delta |
| reed plant of the Nile Valley, used to make a form of paper | papyrus |
| tallest building in the world for 4,000 years | the Great Pyramid |
| The natural barriers that protected Egypt in the south | cataracts |
| a collection of spells and prayers studied to help obtain the afterlife | The Book of the Dead |
| the main god of the Egyptians | Re |
| the land around the Nile River delta | Lower Egypt |
| tried to give Egypt a new religion | Amenhotep |
| woman pharaoh who concentrated on building the Egyptian economy | Hatshepsut |
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