Ancient Egypt Flashcards
Delta
A landform that forms at the mouth of a river, where the river flows into an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, or reservoir.
Cataract
Areas in the Nile that is very difficulty to travel in
The black land
The fertile land on the banks of the Nile
The red land
The barren desert that protected Egypt on two sides
Menes
The Pharaoh of the early dynastic period, credited with having united Upper and Lower Egypt
Theocracy
A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
Ka
The spirit of the person after death
Sphinx
A monster of Thebes, having a woman’s head and a lion’s body
Old kingdom
The 3rd millennium BC when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization
Middle Kingdom
The period in the history of ancient Egypt between about 2000 BC and 1700 BC.
New kingdom
The period in ancient Egyptian history between the 16th century BC and the 11th century BC.
The great pyramid of Giza
The oldest and largest of the three pyramids, and the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
