6th Grade Unit 2 Ch. 4

Match the following

• triangle-shaped area of land by a rive

• Menes

• title used by the rulers of Egypt

• delta

• strong rapids

• Pharaoh

• Leader who united Upper and Lower Egypt

• Cataracts

• a series of rulers from the same family

• Dynasty

Match the following

• life after death

• acquire

• Egyptian History from 2700BCE to 2200BCE

• Nobles

• people from rich powerful families

• afterlife

• to get

• Khufu

• Most famous pharaoh in the Old Kingdom

• Old Kingdom

Match the following

• scientific knowledge used practically

• method

• a way of doing something

• pyramids

• treated bodies wrapped in cloth

• elite

• people of wealth and power

• engineering

• Huge stone tombs with 4 triangle walls

• mummies

Match the following

• scientific knowledge used practically

• mummies

• people of wealth and power

• elite

• a way of doing something

• pyramids

• treated bodies wrapped in cloth

• method

• Huge stone tombs with 4 triangle walls

• engineering

Middle Kingdom

• a period of order and stability that lasted until 1750 BCE

• the period during which Egypt reached the height of its power and glory

• binding legal arguments

• paths followed by traders

New Kingdom

• a period of order and stability that lasted until 1750 BCE

• the period during which Egypt reached the height of its power and glory

• binding legal arguments

• paths followed by traders

Contracts

• a period of order and stability that lasted until 1750 BCE

• the period during which Egypt reached the height of its power and glory

• binding legal arguments

• paths followed by traders

Trade routes

• a period of order and stability that lasted until 1750 BCE

• the period during which Egypt reached the height of its power and glory

• binding legal arguments

• paths followed by traders

Queen Hathepsut

• called herself king and ruled Egypt from 1472-1458 BCE

• fought the Hittites and had one of the longest reigns in Egypt

• imaginary creatures with the bodies of lions and the heads of other animals or humans

• Archeologists discovered his tomb

Ramses the Great

• called herself king and ruled Egypt from 1472-1458 BCE

• fought the Hittites and had one of the longest reigns in Egypt

• imaginary creatures with the bodies of lions and the heads of other animals or humans

• Archeologists discovered his tomb