Ancient Egypt #2
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- Which development in ancient history contributed most to the growth of civilization?
- Writing
- The paper made from reeds that grew in the Nile Delta was called
- papyrus
- In ancient Egypt most of the land and farms were owned by _______.
- government officials
- Unified Egypt by over-throwing the king of Lower Egypt and became the pharaoh
- Menes
- Large stone coffin
- Sarcophagus
- The Middle Kingdom is best described as a time when Egypt ___________.
- Increased contact with other cultures
- joining of seperate parts into one
- unification
- Mixture of tiny bits of soil and rock left behind as over drain
- silt
- The time when Egypt's early pharaohs worked to build Unity within the country was called the ______.
- Old Kingdom
- Watered area within a desert
- oasis
- A piece of jewwelry used to ward off evil
- Amulet
- Farmers and _______ make up the largest part of Egyptian society.
- slaves
- Extra supply of goods
- surplus
- Plant used to make cloth
- flax
- Waterfall
- cataract
- The Egyptians believed that after a person died, he/she would go to _____.
- The Next World
- Funded the search for King Tut
- Howard Cater
- The distance fom a person's elbow to the tip of the thumb ( about 20 inches)
- cubit
- Bucket-lifter used to scoop water from canals and pour into the fields
- Shaduf
- A person who makes maps
- Cartographer
- Organized a 2-year expedition expanding trade beyond the egyptian empire
- Hatshepsut
- Ordered the contruction of the Great pyramid
- Khufu
- Studied the hyksos and used their weapons to drive them back out to lower Egypt
- Ahmose
- Group of people who go on a trip for a set reason
- Expedition
- Ruled as a wealthy young pharaoh from about age 9 to 19
- Tutankhamun
- Carved inscription of a pharaoh's name contained in an oval
- Cartouche
- Body of a lion and head of a pharaoh
- sphinx