Ancient Egypt: fill in the blanks · Grade 6

The word bank and sentences

Directions: Read each sentence. Choose the best word from the word bank and write it on the line.

• Word bank: cross out each word as you use it
• black land · Narmer · papyrus · Champollion · Khufu
• Kingdoms · flood · Kush
• 1 In 1822 Jean-François · used the Rosetta Stone to decode hieroglyphs.
• 2 Writing on · scrolls let Egyptians keep tax records, letters and medical texts.
• 3 Each year the Nile's · spread rich silt over the fields along its banks.
• 4 Kings from · later conquered Egypt and ruled it as pharaohs for about a century.
• 5 Upper and Lower Egypt were united around 3100 BCE, traditionally by King
• 6 Ancient Egyptians called their fertile river land Kemet, meaning the ____.
• 7 The Great Pyramid of Giza was built for the pharaoh · about 4,500 years ago.
• 8 Historians divide Egypt's long history into the Old, Middle and New ____.