History Vocab Study Guide Crossword

A rock -filled rapid in a river
Rich, fertile soil deposited by the flooding of a river
The place at the mouth of a river where it splits into several streams to form an area shaped like a triangle.
The title of the kings of ancient Egypt
a family of rulers.
someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule.
The next life , in which the dead are believed to live again.
a dead body preserved in lifelike condition.
a huge building with four sloping outside walls shaped like triangles.
a kind of picture writing in which some pictures stand for ideas or things and other stand for sound.
an early form of paper made from a reedlike plant found in the marshy areas of the Nile delta
a scientist who studies the stars and other objects in the sky.
a worker who is especially skilled in making something ,such as baskets , leather, goods, tools, jewelry , pottery, or clothes.
an area in ancient Egypt, in the northern Nile River region.
an area in ancient Egypt in the Nile Valley, south of the rivers 's delta and the 30th northern parallel
founder of the first Egyptian dynasty ; unified upper and Lower Egypt; founded the capital of Memphis.
an ancient city capital of Upper Egypt ; site of the Great Pyramids.
French scholar; first to decode egyptians hieroglyphics.
prince of Nubia; became king of Nubia and Egypt in 690 B.C.
a market town in present-day Sudan; an ancient Nubian city.
a city of ancient Nubia in present-day Sudan.
one of the three most powerful Nubian kingdoms; located between the third and forth cataracts of the Nile River in Upper Nubia.
an ancient region in northeastern Africa that extended from the Nile Valley in Egypt to present-day Sudan ,specifically between second and sixth cataracts.
an ancient region in northern Africa extending from the Nile Valley in Egypt to present-day Sudan,specifically between the first and the second Nile cataracts.
Greek author who traveled throughout the known world; wrote about the wars between Greece and persian in the history, the first major historical work of ancient times.