Whats that word?
A family of rulers having the right to rule being passed down.
What is a dynasty?
Had great knowledge of reading and writing, their jobs were to write and copy hieroglyphic and hieratic scripts (upper/middle class).
Who are scribes?
Nephew of Hatshepsut, seen as a warrior king and exapanded Egypt westward.
Who was Thutmose the Third?
A process Egyptians practiced to preserve dead bodies so Ka could return even after death.
What is mummification?
Where is Lower Egypt?
A type of government in the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt.
Farmed on the land of the estates, paid taxes in the form of crops to the Pharaoh, and worked on projects like the pyramids.
Who are peasants & servants?
Was the first woman to become Pharaoh, daughter of King Thutmose the first.
These were special jars organs were placed inside.
The Egyptians believed each soul had two bodies- a spiritual one and a physical one. This term is for the spiritual body.
What is Ka?
What are the Red Lands?
Highest officials working under the pharaoh. (Three titles)
Who are Viziers, Priests, and Nobles?
Ruler of the very first royal dynasty, merged Upper and Lower Egypt together.
Who was Menes?
These five organs are removed from the body during mummification.
What are the liver, lungs, stomach, brain, and intestines?
Egypt conquered Nubia and art and literature flourished during this time.
When was The Middle Kingdom?
A simplified version of hieroglyphics.
What is hieratic script?
The ruler of Egypt who acted as a god.
One of the most powerful pharaohs he defeated the Hittites in the battle of Kadesh.
Who was Ramese the Second?
These were placed between layers of wrapping to protect the body during the journey to the afterlife.
What are amulets?
During this time Egypt had their first dynasty, Memphis was made a capital of the kingdom and they built the pyramids.
The city where the Great Pyramid is located.
Middle class workers who lived in villages comfortably but were not wealthy?
Who are merchants and craftspeople?
Invaded and ruled Egypt for around 100 years.
Who are the Hyksos?
The mummification process took this many days.
What is 70 days?
Hatshepsut ruled during this period of expansion and prosperty.
When was The New Kingdom?