Vocabulary: Egypt, Kush, & Canaan

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1 Vocabulary: Egypt, Kush, & Canaan Name Period # Directions: 1. Write out the complete definition for the following vocabulary words. (You may use your textbook pgs. 52 & 59 or LongmanDictionary.com) 2. Draw and color a picture or cartoon that will help you remember the definition. 3. Write out a sentence using the word correctly. (You may use a sentence from the book or from the Internet.) Highlight the vocab word. Vocabulary Word environmental factors Anything found in nature that influences living organisms Examples: landforms, climate, water, soil, vegetation The Earth s surface geography The land Land, mountains, rivers, valleys, deserts, climate, soil, etc. topography The shape of an area of land, including hills, valleys. etc. The features of an area of land such as mountains and rivers

2 Plants Plants in a particular area vegetation The natural plants in an area An area of low land where a river spreads into many smaller rivers near the sea delta An area of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river fertilization To make soil richer and better able to support plant growth by adding chemicals or a natural substance To put fertilizer on the soil to make plants grow The process of adding fertilizer, or plant food, to soil

3 papyrus A plant like grass that grows out of the water A tall plant that grows in marshes A tough water plant used to make paper and rope nomad A member of a group of people who move from place to place instead of living in one place all the time Leader pharaoh A ruler in ancient Egypt pyramid A very large structure that has a square base and four triangular sides which forma point at the top A huge, triangular shaped monument od ancient Egypt built around a tomb

4 social class A group of people with similar levels of wealth, influence, education, and status A broad group in society having common economic, cultural, or political status A division of society based on social and economic A person who is not educated and has low status peasant A poor farmer who rents a small piece of land in the past or in poor countries A person who does all the farming landowner for a rich A high- ranking government official vizier The highest official in Ancient Egypt to serve under the pharaoh A high official in some Muslim countries in the past, especially Turkey under Ottoman rule

5 alliance An agreement in which two or more counties try and To treat a dead body with chemicals, oils to prevent it from decaying embalm Preserve a corpse from decay A large stone coffin sarcophagus A decorated stone box for a dead body, used in ancient times A stone coffin, heavily decorated, associated with ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome, and Greece

6 hieroglyph A system of writing that uses pictures to represent words An official process of counting a country s population (the number of people) census An official process of counting people and collecting information about them A severe shortage of food famine A situation in which a large number of people have little or no food for a long period of time and people die A situation where people don t have enough food