| A | B |
|---|
| Silt | A mixture of tiny bits of soil and rock carried and deposited by a river, p71. |
| Delta | The flat, fanshaped landmade of silt deposited at the mouth of a river,p71 |
| Irrigation | The watering of dryland of means of canals and pipes,p72 |
| Nile River | The worlds largest river,which flows northward through East Africa into the Mediterranean Sea,p70-71 |
| Lower Egypt | The northern part of Ancient Egypt,p71 |
| Upper Egypt | The southern part of Ancient Egypt,p71 |
| Unification | The joining of seprate parts,such as kingdoms into one,p75 |
| Pharoah | The title used by the rulers of Ancient Egypt,p75 |
| Economy | The way people manage money resoures for the prodution of goods and services,p77 |
| Hieroglyphics | The Ancient Egyption system of writingthat used symbols to stand for objects,ideas or sounds,p78 |
| Scribe | A professional writer who kept records and copied letters and official documents,p78 |
| Papyrus | A reed plant growing alone the Nile,that the ancient Egyptions used for writing,p79 |
| Menes | King of upper Egypt who united upper and lower Egypt,p75 |
| Khufu | Egyption pharoah who built the Great Pyramid,p81 |
| Memphis | Capital of Egypt's Old Kingdom located on the Nile near present-day Cairo,p76 |
| Thebes | An ancient city in Upper Egypt that became the capital of the New Kingdom.p76-81 |
| Empire | A group of lands and peoples ruled by one government. |
| Expedition | A group of people who go on a trip for a specific reason. |
| Ahmose | A New Kingdom pharaoh who drove the Hyksos out of the Nile Delta and reunited Egypt. |
| Hatshepsut | One of the few women Egyptian pharaohs. p87 |
| Tutankhamun | Egyptian pharaoh who ruled from the ages of 7 to 17; his tomb remained undiscovered until 1922. p88 |
| Nubia | An ancient kingdom south of Egypt. m86, p84 |
| Punt | An ancient Egyptian name for an area of Africa south of Egypt. m86, p87 |
| Valley of the Kings | West of Thebes in ancient Egypt, the burial place of 30 New Kingdom pharaohs; m93, p88 |
