1. Nile River -Valley area of land around Nile River
2.Nile River flows- through the Nile River Valley; longest river in the world; flow north
3.Blue & White Nile Rivers-The 2 river that start the Nile River
4.Cataracts- rocks and cliffs that form "Whitewater Rapids" in the Nile River
5.Delta-A triangle shaped areas of land found at the end of the Nile River where it meets the Mediterranean Sea
6.Sahara-Found to the west of the Nile River; Largest desert in the world; creates a natural barrier for Egypt to the west
7."Red Land-"Name of the desert part of Egypt because it was not fertile.
"8.Black Land-"Name of the area of Egypt that was fertile because of the Nile River flooding
9.Papyrusa reed plant that s grows along the Nile; used to make paper
10.Hieroglyphics-Egyptian writing system
11.Rosetta Stone allowed- historians to interpret the Hieroglyphics
12. Namer -Credited with UNITING EGYPT
13.Upper Egypt-Southern part of Egypt
14.Lower Egypt-Northern part of Egypt
15.Dynasty-family of rulers
16. Pharaoh- God-King; Ruler in Egypt
Shadoof was a originally develop in Ancient Egypt, and appears on a Sargonid seal of 2000 BC. It is still used for many area like Africa, Asia to draw water.
King Namer- Among these is the idea that Namer was more the last of the pre-dynastic kings than the first of the Pharaohs; that he was the mythical Menes who dammed the southern Nile River; that he may have been the same person as Serket the Scorpion King of Upper Egypt (generally considered the last pre-unification king.
Rosetta Stone a granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis, Egypt, in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek. Because it presents essentially the same text in all three scripts (with some minor differences among them)