| A | B |
|---|
| Huang He | China |
| Tigris | Mesopotamia |
| Nile | Egypt |
| Indus | India |
| Euphrates | Mesopotamia |
| silt | a layer of rich soil left by river floods |
| cataract | waterfall |
| delta | triangular area of marshland formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers |
| dynasty | ruling family |
| pharaohs | Egyptian rulers |
| vizier | chief minister to the pharaoh |
| mummification | the preservation of the dead |
| Hieroglyphics | picture writing |
| ideograms | pictures that symbolize an idea or action |
| demotic | a simpler form of writing |
| papyrus | a plant which people made paper out of long ago |
| decipher | decode, figure out |
| peasant farmers | Most Egyptians were _____. |
| polytheistic | belief in many gods |
| scribes | people who were trained to read and write |
| Social Classes | a system of ranking people based on the occupation (job) they held |
