Unit 5 Vocabulary

Wetlands that form as rivers empty their water and sediment into another body of water.

• Oceans

• Lakes

• Irrigation

• Delta

All-powerful leader in ancient Egypt

• Papyrus

• Pharaohs

• Oligarch

• Palatine

A huge triangular-shaped monument of ancient Egypt built around a tomb.

• Cemetery

• Prophet

• Mount Hieroglyph

• Pyramids

To treat a dead body with preservatives to prevent it from decaying.

• Embalm

• Execute

• Exile

• Exodus

The process of wrapping a body that has been embalmed and wrapped in linen.

• Embalming

• Mummification

• Martyr

• Pharaoh

System of writing made up of thousands of picture symbols developed by the ancient Egyptians.

• Hierarchy

• Papyrus

• Mosque

• Hieroglyphics

A severe shortage of food

• Hunger

• Silt

• Millet

• Famine

The belief in or worship of more than one god.

• Humanism

• Polytheism

• Poligon

• Monotheism

The belief of one God.

• Monastery

• Mosque

• Polytheism

• Monotheism

Fine particles of rock.

• Stone

• Marble

• Granite

• Silt