Pharaohs
Legacies
Social Pyramid
Geography
Vocabulary
100
a pharaoh who ruled from about the age of 9 to 19. His tomb remained untouched until 1922 when it was discovered.
Who is Tutankhamun?
100

the watering of dry land by means of canals or pipes.

What is Irrigation?

100
the group with the least amount of people on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the Pharaohs?
100
a mixture of tiny bits of rock and soil deposited by a river that would have been found in Lower Egypt.
What is silt?
100

a series of rulers or leaders who are all from the same family, or a period when a country is ruled by them.

Dynasty

200
a pharaoh who organized a two-year trading expedition to Punt.
Who is Hatshepsut?
200
a reed plant that grows along the Nile, which can be used to make paper.
What is Papyrus?
200
The group that has the most people in it on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the slaves?
200
fertile flat land made of silt left behind as the river drains into a larger body of water.
What is a Delta?
200
the title used by the rulers of ancient Egypt.
What is pharaoh?
300
the pharaoh that ordered the building of the Great Pyramid.
Who is Khufu?
300
a system of writing that was made up of about 800 picture-signs.
What is Hieroglyphics?
300
The group that is immediately above the slaves on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the farmers?
300
the southern area of ancient Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
300

belief in an underworld, eternal life, and rebirth of the soul.

after life

400
the pharaoh that unified Lower and Upper Egypt and became the first pharaoh.
Who is Menes?
400
the people who went to school in ancient Egypt, starting at about the age of ten.
Who are boys?
400
the group that is immediately underneath the Pharaoh on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the government officials?
400
the direction the Nile River flows from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt.
What is North?
400

the highest official in ancient Egypt to serve the pharaoh (king) during the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms.

vizier

500
the pharaoh who drove the Hyksos out of the Nile Delta and got the land back for Egypt.
Who is Ahmose?
500

is a machine used in the shaping (known as throwing) of clay into round ceramic ware.

potter's wheel

500
the four groups that are in the middle of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the soldiers, scribes, merchants, and artisans?
500
the place that Egypt conquered twice because of its gold.
What is Nubia?
500

the joining of separate parts into one.

What is unification?

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