| Expedition | | the world's largest river, which flows northward through East Africa into the Mediterrian sea. |
| Thebes | | New Kingdom pharoh who drove the Hyksos out of the Nile Delta and reunited Egypt. |
| Ahmose | | a mixture of tiny bits of soil and rock. |
| Silt | | an ancient Egyptian name for an area of Africa south of Egypt. |
| Upper Egypt | | an ancient city in Upper Egypt that became the capital of the New Kingdom. |
| Nubia | | an ancient kingdom south of Egypt. |
| Irregation | | the word pharaoh actually refers to the |
| Hieroglyphics | | The watering of land by means of canals or pipes. |
| Memphis | | a professional writer who kept records and copied letters and official documents |
| Nile River | | the northern part of Ancient Egypt. |
| Menes | | a group of people who go on a trip for a specific reason. |
| Delta | | the practice of one owning another person. |
| Economy | | the ancient Egyption system of writing thet used symbols to stand for objects, ideas, or sound. |
| Punt | | the joining of seprate parts into one. |
| Slavery | | a kind of paper made from papryrus, a reed plant growing along the Nile, thet the Ancient Egyptians used for writing. |
| Hatshepsut | | west of Thebes in ancient Egypt, the burial place of 30 New Kingdom pharoahs. |
| Kush | | capital of Egypt's Old Kingdom, located on the Nile near present-day Cairo. |
| Empire | | the economy of a country is the way people manage money and resources for the production. |
| Lower Egypt | | an ancient kingdom in northeastern Africa, conquered by Egypt. It later regained independence and flourished through trade between c. 500 B.C. and A.D. 150. |
| Khufu | | Egyptian pharoh who built the Great Pyramid. |
| Papryrus | | the southern part of Ancient Egypt. |
| Scribe | | a very fertile, flat land made of silt left behind as a river drains. |
| Social Pyramid | | a diagram illustrating the divisions within a culture; usually showing the most powerful person or group at the peak and the least powerful group at the bottom. |
| Unification | | one of the few people Egyptian pharaohs; orginize a trade expedition to Egypt's southern neighbor, Punt. |
| Pharaoh | | a group of lands and peoples ruled by one government. |
| Valley of kings | | king of Upper Egypt who united Upper and Lower Egypt. |
