| A | B |
|---|
| temple | a building where people go to worship or pray |
| weapon | a tool used to hurt or harm others |
| fertile soil | land where plants grow well |
| pharoah | what Egyptians called their king |
| flood | when the waters overflow onto the land |
| pyramid | a building with four triangular sides where pharoahs were buried |
| tomb | a place where the dead are buried |
| slave | a person who is not free and works without pay |
| Egypt | a country in Africa where one of the first civilizations started |
| Nile | river that flows through Egypt and is the world's longest river |
| why the Nile was important | it gave water to grow crops |
| civilization | a society that has developed rules and a culture |
| nobles | the second most powerful group in Egypt who ran the government |
| why the Egyptians built pyramids | for the pharoahs to have a good place to spend their next life |
| irrigate | to carry water to crops on land |
| climate of Egypt | dry, with little rain |
| ancient | old in a historical sense |
| building materials of Ancient Egypt | mud bricks, stone blocks, metals |
| Hatshepsut | famous woman pharaoh |
| Egyptian contributions to civilization | a calendar, papyrus, heiroglyphics |
| papyrus | a material to write on that comes from plants |
| hieroglyphics | Egyptian picture system of writing |
| Tutankhamen | famous pharoah who died at 18 |
