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| ARID: describes a region in which annual rainfall is less than 25 cm/10 in or completely lacking in interest or excitement. Adjective |
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| ARABLE: describes land that can be cultivated for growing crops or land that is fit for planting crops. Adjective |
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| SILT: fine-grained sediment, especially of mud or clay particles at the bottom of a river or lake or to become full or obstructed with silt, or fill or obstruct something with silt. noun |
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| TRIBUTARIES: a stream, river, or glacier that joins a larger stream, river, or glacier, or a lake or formerly, a person or nation that paid a monetary tribute to another. Noun |
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| CULTIVATION: the planting, growing, and harvesting of crops or plants, or the preparation of land for this purpose or improvement or development, especially through study or education or educated taste or sophistication. Noun |
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| DOMESTICATION: to accustom an animal to living with or near people, usually as a farm animal or pet or to accustom somebody to home life or housework or to cultivate plants or raise animals, selectively breeding them to increase their suitability for human requirements. Transitive Verb |
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| NAVIGABLE: passable by ship or boat, especially deep enough and wide enough to allow ships or boats to sail through. Adjective |
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| TORRENT: a fast and powerful rush of liquid, especially water or a violent or tumultuous flow. Noun |
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| CATARACT: an eye disease in which the lens becomes covered in an opaque film that affects sight, eventually causing total loss of sight. The condition usually affects older people and is generally found in both eyes to varying degrees. It can be treated surgically by replacing the lens with an artificial implant or the lens of the eye or the membrane surrounding it capsule that has become opaque as a result of disease or for our Egyptian study: a series of river rapids and small waterfalls with only moderate vertical drop or a heavy downpour of rain or a great flood. Noun |
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| DELTA: a code word for the letter "D," used in international radio communications or the fourth brightest star in a constellation or a triangular deposit of sand and soil at the mouth of a river or inlet or an area in or around the delta of a river or the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet, represented in the English alphabet as "d" or something shaped like a triangle or delta or a change in the value of a variable. Noun |
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| CARTOUCHE: the paper casing of a firework or cartridge or a decorative panel in the form of a frame or unrolled scroll, sometimes containing writing, forming an artistic or architectural feature or an oval or oblong shape containing writing, especially one containing a king's name in Egyptian hieroglyphics. Noun |
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| HIEROGLYPHICS: a writing system that uses symbols or pictures to denote objects, concepts, or sounds, originally and especially in the writing system of ancient Egypt or writing that is difficult to decipher, or other indecipherable symbols. Noun |
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| DROUGHT: writing that is difficult to decipher, or other indecipherable symbols or a lengthy and serious lack of something such as rain or water. Noun |
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| NILOMETER: used to measure the rising of the Nile |
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| SHADOOF: in ancient Egypt, a water-raising device consisting of a suspended pivoting pole with a bucket on one end and a counterweight on the other. Noun |
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PAPYRUS, PAPYRI: writing material used by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans that was made from the pith of the stem of a water plant or an ancient manuscript written on papyrus or a tall water plant. Flowers: small, like umbrellas. Native to: southern Europe, Nile valley. Latin name: Cyperus papyrus Use: writing material. Noun
ISOLATION: the process of separating somebody or something from others, or the fact of being alone and separated from others or remoteness from other inhabited areas or buildings. Noun |
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| THE INUNDATION: months of Nile flooding, May thru Aug. or June thru Sept |
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| THE EMERGENCE: months after the flooding of the Nile |
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| RED LAND: dry, barren, windswept desert lands surrounding the Egypt area |
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| BLACK LAND: silt-enriched, fertile soil stripping both sides of the Nile |
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