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

Because the civilization was built in the middle of a desert, it was entirely dependent on this 4,000-mile-long river for water and food.

What is the Nile River?

100

This was a specially treated body wrapped in cloth to prevent decay for the afterlife.

What is a mummy?

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 farmers?

200
a mixture of tiny bits of rock and soil deposited by a river that would have been found in Lower Egypt.
What is silt?
200

This is the title for a life after death, a concept that was central to Egyptian religion and burial practices.

What is the afterlife?

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 below the farmers on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.

What is the slaves?

300
fertile flat land made of silt left behind as the river drains into a larger body of water.
What is a Delta?
300

This term refers to a series of rulers from the same family.

What is a dynasty?

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

To keep the "ka" happy, the Egyptians developed this process to preserve bodies and keep them from decaying.

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

Discovered in 1799, this key artifact featured the same text in three different languages, finally allowing scholars to decipher ancient Egyptian writing.

What is Rosetta Stone?

500
the four groups that are in the middle of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the soldiers, scribes, merchants, and artisans?
500

These strong rapids and rocky terrain south of Egypt made it extremely difficult for invaders to sail into the country from the south.

What is cataracts?

500

This term refers to an imaginary creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human or other animal, often seen in Egyptian art and architecture.

What is a sphynx?

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