Across
- 2. A long stick with a bucket on the end to get water
- 4. The middle period of dynasties
- 6. The oldest period of dynasties
- 10. Government officials who carried out the pharaoh’s orders
- 11. What the Egyptians called the deserts east and west of the Nile
- 14. A reed used for weaving and eventually writing
Down
- 1. The latest period of dynasties
- 3. A complex writing system developed by the Egyptians
- 5. A king of Upper Egypt. At around 3100 B.C. he unified Upper and Lower Egypt
- 7. Dangerous waters that make traveling difficult
- 8. A fan shaped area of fertile marshland made by the Nile splitting up
- 9. Structures that the Egyptians built around 3000 B.C.
- 12. A line of rulers from one family
- 13. Means “great house” Egyptian’s ruler’s name