Ancient Egypt Vocabulary Words
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Ahmose
new kingdom pharaoh who drove the Hyksos
out of the Nile delta and reunited Egypt
20.
silt
mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river
or lake
2.
delta
flat, low-lying land built up from soil carried
downstream by a river and deposited at its
mouth
21.
slavery
the state of being under the control of another
person
22.
3.
economy
the way people manage money and
resources for the production of goods and
services
social
pyramid
diagram that shows a person's place in society;
the pharaoh was at the top; slaves were at the
bottom
23.
Thebes
an ancient city in Upper Egypt that became the
capital of the New Kingdom
4.
empire
a group of countries under a single authority
5.
expedition
a journey organized for a particular purpose
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unification
the act of making or becoming a single unit
6.
Hatshepsut
First female pharaoh who expanded Egypt
through trade
25.
Upper
Egypt
the southern part of ancient Egypt
7.
hieroglyphics
an ancient Egyptian writing system in which
pictures were used to represent ideas and
sounds
8.
irrigation
Supplying land with water through a network
of canals
9.
Khufu
Egyptian pharaoh who built the great
pyramid
10.
Kush
An African state that developed along the
upper reaches of the Nile c. 100 B.C.E.;
conquered Egypt and ruled it for several
centuries.
11.
Lower Egypt
The northern region of ancient Egypt, named
so because it was located downriver with the
Nile's flow.
12.
Memphis
The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt, near the
head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were
interred in the nearby pyramids. (p. 43)
13.
Menes
king of upper egypt united the two kingdoms
of upper and lower egypt
14.
Nile River
The world's longest river, which flows
northward through East Africa into the
Mediterranean Sea
15.
Nubia
an ancient region of northeastern Africa
(southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the
Nile
16.
papyrus
a tall reed that grows in the Nile delta, used
by the ancient Egyptians to make a paperlike
material for writing on
17.
pharaoh
a king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as
well as a political and military leader
18.
Punt
an ancient Egyptian name for an area of
Africa south of Egypt
19.
scribes
people trained to write using the earliest
forms of writing before literacy was
widespread