Pharaohs
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?
The watering of dry land by means of canals or pipes.
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?
the practice of one person owning another person.
What is slavery?
Pharoahs were buried in these.
What is a pyramid?
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 lower class?
fertile flat triangle-shaped land made of silt left behind as the river drains into a larger body of water.
What is a Delta?
the title used by the rulers of ancient Egypt.
What is pharaoh?
The pharaoh who was known as the longest reigning pharaoh who protected Egypt with his strong military.
a system of writing that was made up of over 600 picture-signs.
What is Hieroglyphics?
The group that is immediately above the slaves on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the farmers?
the southern area of ancient Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
The life force.
What is ka?
the pharaoh that unified Lower and Upper Egypt and became the first pharaoh.
Who is Menes?
People who could keep records and accounts for the government and could write religious and literary texts.
Who were scribes?
the group that is immediately underneath the Pharaoh on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the priests or government officials?
the direction the Nile River flows from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt.
What is North?
Allowed historians to read hieroglyphics because it contained Greek, later Egyptian and hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This is what a pharaoh was known as.
Who is a king and a god?
imaginary creature with the head of animal or human and body of lion.
What is a sphinx?
the four groups that are in the middle of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the scribes, merchants, and artisans/craftspeople?
the rapids in the Nile River that made sailing difficult and provided protection.
What are cataracts?
A series of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?