Across
- 2. exchange or trade
- 3. the sun god
- 5. an area where a river fans out into various branches as it flows into a body of water
- 6. Nubian kingdom
- 8. a king - reunited Egypt under native Egyptian rule
- 12. Egypt was never more powerful than than during this pharaoh's long reign
- 13. specialized workers removed and preserved the body so the spirit could recognize the body after death.
- 15. professional writers
- 16. a king of Upper Egypt that conquered Lower Egypt, and became ruler of all of Egypt
- 19. around 2040 BCE Mentuhotep II reunited the kingdom and launched a new era of peace and prosperity
- 21. south of Egypt, across the first cataract of the Nile lay this land
- 23. the Nile Delta region with wide expanse of fertile land and access to the Mediterranean Sea
- 25. history's earliest well-known female ruler
Down
- 1. rock formations that create churning rapids
- 4. spanned nearly 500 years from 1550 BCE to 1070 BCE - a period of prosperity and Egypt was more powerful than ever
- 7. paperlike material made from reeds that grew along the banks of the Nile.
- 9. massive monumental tombs to house pharaohs' dead bodies
- 10. Egypt's first great period of unity and prosperity, lasting from 2700 BCE to 2200 BCE
- 11. chief officials
- 14. the longest river in the world, called the father of African rivers
- 17. people belonging to different social class, and had a rank in society
- 18. a picture representing an object, or it could represent a sound or an idea
- 20. a series of rulers from the same family
- 22. long, narrow stretch of the Nile south of modern Cairo and hemmed in by desert.
- 24. in Giza, near Cairo, a pyramid - home to the body of a cruel tyrant
- 25. foreigners that targeted Egypt for its wealth, and brought an end to the middle kingdom