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Name __________________
Date____________________
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Egyptian Vocabulary Worksheet
Slide #1:
Black Land: Dark soiled valley of fertile land near the ___________ ______________ .
Red Land: __________ area in Egypt.
cataracts: Rushing water forming ________________ and rapids as it rushes through
stone ___________ and boulders.
Delta: T______________ of muddy wetlands where a river divides into many small
channels and streams. It has rich soil for farming.
Dynasty: A series of ________________ from the same family.
Slide #2:
Book of the Dead: A book of hymns, prayers, and magic spells. These were placed
with the dead in order to help them pass through the d____________ of the underworld
and attain an afterlife of bliss in the Field of Reeds. Some of the texts are also found on
the w_____________ of tombs and on c_______________ or written on papyrus, linen
or vellum.
Slide #3:
Ra or Re: The Egyptian ___________ god, c_________________ god, great-grandfather
of Osiris, and Isis, and great-great-grandfather to Horus.
Slide #4
Osiris: The chief god of the underworld, or home of the dead. He greeted the dead person
when they reached the underworld and asked them q________________ about their life
on earth.
Slide #5
Anubis: He had the body of a human and the head of a jackal. He helped Osiris prepare
the bodies of the dead for the afterlife. He was worshipped as the i_______________ of
embalming. He held the s__________________ that weighed a person’s heart.
Slide #6
Maat: The goddess whose feather of ______________ was placed on the scale opposite
the dead person’s heart.
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Slide #7
Cartouche: An ____________- shaped inscription with a king or queen’s
_________________ written in hieroglyphs. The cartouche was an elongated version of
the ___________ rope within which two of the king's names (his birth name and his
throne name) were written.
Slide #8
Khnum: A god who controlled the flood_____________ of the Nile who was pictured as
a ram-headed _________________. He was also seen as a creator-god who molded
people on a potter’s w_________ from the mud of the Nile River.
Slide #9
Papyrus: Long, thin ____________ that grew wild along the riverbanks of the Nile. We
get our word _______________ from papyrus.
Pharaoh: The term means “great _____________.” During the New Kingdom period
Egyptians began to call their kings “pharaohs”. Before that, it only referred to the royal
p____________.
Slide #10
Upper Egypt: The ________________part of Egypt that stretched for over 500 miles
from the first c________________ northward to the beginning of the Nile Delta.
Lower Egypt: The northern part of Egypt, consisting of the Nile ____________. It was
only ________ miles long, but many times wider than Upper Egypt.
White Crown: The crown worn by the kings of ___________ Egypt. It was a white,
pear-shaped crown.
Red Crown: The crown worn by kings of _______________ Egypt. It was a short,
boxy, red crown with a tall spike at the back and a curlicue at the front.
Slide #11
King Menes: The king of ______________ Egypt around ________________ BC. He
defeated the king of Lower Egypt, united the two lands and named himself King of both
Upper and Lower Egypt. Supposedly, he designed a new crown to celebrate his victory.
This d_______________ crown stood for the union of the two lands.
Slide #12
Sarcophagus: A c______________. The outside of the Egyptian sarcophagus usually
had the king or queen’s c__________________, a picture of their head and hands,
symbols of their reign, and p______________ of gods and goddesses.
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Slide #13
Thebes: In 2134 BC Thebes became the r_____________ residence of the Pharaoh, and
the site of worship for the god, Amon during the M______________ Kingdom Period.
Today it is the site of Luxor, and K___________. It contains the Valley of the Tombs
and great temples. As the Egyptian empire began to decay, the city of Thebes declined.
Thebes was taken over by the Assyrians in 661 BC.
Slide #14
New Kingdom
1570-1070 BC
Middle Kingdom
2055-1650
BC
Old Kingdom 2686-2181
BC
3000
BC
3100
BC
3300
BC
4000
BC
Hieroglyphics
i__________
Upper Egypt
conquers l_______
Egypt
Separate kings in
u_______ and
lower Egypt
Egypt began to
f_______
E_______ grew
s____________
Great Pyramids at
G_______ built
Egypt
became a
w________
p_________
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Slide #15
Mesopotamia
Both
Rivers flow
__________ to north
Rivers give l______
F_______ plain, not
protected from
i___________
No predictable
f____________
H_________ to farm
than in Egypt
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Nile flows n_________
to south
Rivers f__________
Built i___________
canals
Boundaries are
p____________ from
invaders
Life based on
f____________
P_______________
flooding
Mineral-rich
__________
Easier to farm than in
M________________
Egypt