Pharaohs
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?
a pharaoh who organized a two-year trading expedition to Punt. (First woman Pharaoh)
Who is Hatshepsut?
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 slaves?
fertile flat 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 that ordered the building of the Great Pyramid.
Who is Khufu?
a system of writing that was made up of about 800 picture-signs.
What is Hieroglyphics?
The group that is immediately above the slaves on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the artisans?
the southern area of ancient Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
the name for the type of government in Egypt
What is theocracy?
the pharaoh that unified Lower and Upper Egypt and became the first pharaoh.
Who is Menes?
the people who went to school in ancient Egypt, starting at about the age of ten.
Who are boys?
the group that is immediately underneath the Pharaoh on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the government officials?
the direction the Nile River flows from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt.
What is South to North?
the invention made by the Egyptians to measure flood waters
What is an nileometer?
the pharaoh who drove the Hyksos out of the Nile Delta and got the land back for Egypt.
Who is Ahmose?
sphinx
the four groups that are in the middle of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the govt. officials, priests, scribes, and artisans?
the place that Egypt conquered twice because of its gold.
What is Nubia?
the kingdom formed by the nubians when they gained power back in egypt
What is Kush?