Egypt Flashcards
Amulet:
Jewelry worn to protect against bad spirits
Canopic jars:
Jars full of pharos organs
Cartouche:
an oval shape containing hieroglyphics of a name written inside
Delta:
triangle shape of land at the mouth of a river
Hieroglyphics:
a system of writings made by pictures & symbols
Mummy
a dead person who is wrapped up to be preserved
Nilometer
something to measure the height of the Nile river
Papyrus
A plant used as paper and more things
Pyramid
a pharaoh’s tomb made with mud bricks.
Sarcophagus
a stone coffin
Shadoof
a long pole with a weight at one end and a bucket at the other to get water from the nile.
significance Akhenaton:
he changed his name to worship one God and had Egypt believe the God to
Jean-Francois Champollion
Translated Hieroglyphics from the Rosetta stone
Queen Hatshepsut
The first female ruler of Egypt. She also wore a beard.
Ramses II
One of the last good pharos to uphold Egypt.
