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1 Name __________________ Date____________________ Period__________________ 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. 2 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. 3 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_________ 4 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