History of the World Ch.3
Across
- 1. A plant used by the Egyptians to make boats, baskets, boxes, mats, sandals, furniture, and paper
- 3. Rapids
- 5. Ham's son who settled in Egypt
- 6. Mysterious statues with the head of a man, ram, or hawk and the body of a lion
- 10. The vizier who prepared Egypt for a seven-year famine
- 12. The study of the relics and ruins of ancient cultures
- 14. The man God used to deliver Israel from slavery
- 18. The pharaoh's chief assistant
- 20. Egyptian god-kings
- 21. Those who kept written records for the pharaoh and other government officials
- 22. May have been the first structure in world history made entirely of stone
- 23. Huge tombs built for some pharaohs
- 24. The pharaoh when the Egyptian empire reached its greatest extent
- 25. The pharaoh who united the two kingdoms of Egypt
- 26. The first and largest pyramid
Down
- 2. The stone used by Jean Francis Champollion to decipher hieroglyphics
- 4. The pharaoh who had many giant statues of himself
- 5. Early tombs with flat tops and sloping sides
- 7. Egyptian writing
- 8. A female pharaoh
- 9. The scholar who deciphered the Rosetta Stone and unlocked the secrets of hieroglyphics
- 11. Families within which the right to be king is passed from one member to the next
- 13. The Egyptian process of preserving dead bodies
- 15. The Greek historian who wrote descriptions of the wonders of ancient Egypt
- 16. The longest river in the world
- 17. A gigantic statue carved in limestone which has a lion's body and a human face in the likeness of a pharaoh
- 19. A payment from one nation to another