Mummification
the amount of days it took to complete the mummification process
What is 70 days?
the watering of dry land by means of canals or pipes. Controlling water.
What is Irrigation?
the group with the least amount of people on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the Pharaohs?
a mixture of tiny bits of rock and soil deposited by a river that would have been found in Lower Egypt.
What is silt?
title used for the rulers of Egypt.
What is a Pharaoh?
jars that the removed organs were placed in
What are Canopic Jars?
a reed plant that grows along the Nile, which can be used to make paper.
What is Papyrus?
The group that has the most people in it on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the slaves?
fertile flat land made of silt left behind as the river drains into a larger body of water. Triangular shaped.
What is a Delta?
Egyptian writing system
What is hieroglyphics?
organ that was left in the body.
Who is the heart?
Egyptians are given credit for this scientific discovery.
What is Surgery?
The group that is above the slaves on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the farmers?
the southern area of ancient Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
people who trade goods with people from other civilizations.
What is a Merchant?
the number of days the body was left to dry out
What is 40 days?
the people who went to school in ancient Egypt, mostly to become scribes and starting at about the age of ten.
Who are boys?
the group that is underneath the Pharaoh on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the government officials?
the direction the Nile River flows from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt.
What is North?
multiple trade paths between different civilizations.
What is Trade Networks?
chemical used to dry out the body
What is natron?
is a form of specific transportation that the Egyptians are said to have invented that people use today.
What is a sailboat?
the four groups that are in the middle of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the soldiers, scribes, merchants, and artisans?
the nickname of the Nile River.
What is Happi?
series of rulers from the same family.
What is Dynasty?