Learning about Egypt!

Today in class, Mr. Schick gave each student a worksheet about key terms that were in the textbook for us to find. The sheet had a front and a back, on the front there were 10 words for the students to define. The first word was cataract which means "turning rapids of water". The second word was delta which means "the marshy region formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of the Nile River". Nome is "one of the 36 territorial divisions of Egypt", and a dynasty is "a series of rulers from a single family". A pharaoh is "a king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader", and the word ka means "an eternal life force". A pyramid is "a massive structure with a rectangular base and four triangular sides, like those that were built in Egypt as burial places for old kingdom pharaohs". The word maat means "an idea or concept that represented justice and truth and personified by a goddess". Hieroglyphics are "ancient Egyptian writing systems in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds", and a papyrus is "a tall reed that grows in the Nile Delta, used by the ancient Egyptians to make a paper like material for writing on". Those were all the terms on the front of the worksheet that we defined from the book. On the back of the paper, there were word blanks in which I had to fill out with the correct word. I was the British archaeologist who discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922. My name is Howard Carter. The Nile River provided Egypt with a reliable system of transportation and with an annual deposit of fertile soil. In about 3100 B.C, a strong-willed king of Upper Egypt named Narmer united all of Egypt. Asian nomads known as the Hykos ruled much of Egypt from 1640 to 1570 B.C. I was the linguist who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone. My name is Jean François Champollion. Those were all of the sentences with the underlined blanks on the worksheet, and that is what we worked on in class today.