Chapter 1 Flashcards
layer of sand and clay
Silt
Moth of the river and builds up land
Delta
Watering of land by means of canals or pipes
Irragation
King Ruler of Egypt
Pharaoh
About 3100 B.C. 1st pharaoh
Menes
Son god
Ra
ways people of a country manage there money and resourses to produce goods
economy
a body that is treated for burial with special preservents and wrapped in cloth
Mummies
Carter found him in 1922served as a pharaoh science he was 9
Tut
Located mostly in Egypt is the longest river in the world and is about 4,000 miles long flows to the Med. Sea
Nile River
found tuts tomb in 1922
Howard Carter
Coffins that mummies were in
Sarcophagus
System of writing used by Egyptians discoverd by Jean Champlian
Hyrogyphics
Found in a town called Rosetta; had 3 types of symbols Greek and 2 different types of Egyptains
Rosseta stone
younge boys of ancient Egypt who knew how to write
Scribes