What the history of Ancient Egypt is divided into.
What are periods?
100
Worked in the mines and carried out domestic duties.
What are slaves?
100
Tombs for the pharaoh and his family. They formed a labyrinth of rooms and passasgeways. The body of the deceased was surrounded by treasure.
What are the Pyramids?
100
someone who believes in various gods.
What is a polytheist?
200
A triangular-shaped area at the mouth of a river, formed by pebbles, sand and mud deposited by the river.
What is a Delta
200
Period of decline (1085-30 B.C) when Egypt disintegrated into small independent states and was invaded by people from other nations. When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt.
What is the Late Period?
200
these people were less powerful than the pharaoh and included the priests, the vizier and the important public servants.
What is the ruling caste?
200
Were used to bury pharaohs and important public servants. They were built in the form of a flat-topped pyramid and contained an offerings chamber with a statue of the deceased.
What are mastabas?
200
material made from a plant, which was used througout the Ancient World to write or paint on.
What is papyrus?
300
The part of Egypt that is in the north, which is a flat, marshy area
What is Lower Egypt?
300
The age after the Intermediate Period that lasted from 2052-1786 B.C. Capital was transferred to Thebes and the kingdom´s territory increased.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
300
was considered to be both king and god; he owned all the land and the people, and had absolute power.
What is a pharaoh?
300
technique in which paint is diluted in glue or egg yolk
What is tempera?
300
a mythical animal, generally with a human head, neck and chest, but a lion´s body and legs
What is a sphinx?
400
Nile River Valley, which received the floodwater of the River Nile (in the south)
What is Upper Egypt.
400
The period between 2700-2200 B.C was the period of greatest splendour in Egypt Pyramids.
What is the Old Kingdom?
400
Enjoyed greater freedom than women in other civilisations.
What are women in Egypt?
400
Technique in which paint is dissolved in water and applied to a wet plaster wall.
What is fresco?
400
a tall vertical and cylindrical architectural element used as a decorative feature or to support the ceiling.
What is a column?
500
When the Nile overflowed its banks once a year.
What is flooding?
500
Founded in 1567 B.C was a period of enourmous prosperity. Capital moved to Thebes and pharaohs such as Akhenated, Tutankhamun, Ramesses II and Ramesses III ruled.
What is the New Kingdom?
500
Included soldiers, craft workers, workers, farmers and foreigners.
What are other free people?
500
were underground tombs carved out of rock. They contained various passageways leading to the funerary chamber of the pharaoh.