Social Classes
Who is at the bottom of the pyramid?
Slaves
How many cataracts are there in the Nile River?
6 Cataracts
What are the names of the three seasons?
1. Inundation (Flooding) Season
2. Planting Season
3. Harvest Season
The Egyptians prepared the body for the afterlife because?
If a person didn't have a body the spirit couldn't eat, drink, dance or enjoy the afterlife
What is papyrus?
A long, thin reed grew wild along the banks of the Nile.
Who is at the top of the pyramid?
The Pharaoh
Where do deltas occur in a river?
The Mouth (End)
What were dams used for?
Dams were used to hold back water to use during droughts.
Why was weighing the heart a important part of the embalming?
If your heart weighed less than the feather of truth you could go in the afterlife but if it wasn't you couldn't.
Who build the Great Pyramids Of Giza?
Common Laborers, Skilled Workers and farmers during flood season
Who is second to last on the pyramid?
Peasents
Where are Lower And Upper Egypt on a map
Lower Egypt is in the north and Upper Egypt is in the south
What kind of channels were used to carry water into the fields?
Irrigation channels were used to carry water into the fields.
How did the Egyptians view their pharaohs?
The Egyptians believed that their pharaohs were gods.
What crops was Egypt most known for growing and trading?
Grains
Who is second on the pyramid?
The Royal Family
What four barriers protected the Egyptians from invaders?
On the west and east there are the Libyan and the Arabian Deserts. In the north there is the Mediterranean Sea and on the south there are mountains and the first cataract.
When the Egyptians became successful at growing and trading grains there were called?
"Breadbasket" of the Mediterranean.
Why did the Egyptians get buried with so many different items?
When the body went into the afterlife the body could use and have the items.
Why was a scribe a hard job to get?
Scribes have to work a lot and the scribe gets to work and live in the pharaoh palace so they have to be well trained.
Who is third on the pyramid?
Priests
What are the names of the three pyramids of Giza?
1. Khufu 2. Khafre 3. Menkaure
After the flooding happened what was the fertile mud called?
Silt
Who led the process of weighing of the heart ?
Anubis and Osiris
Who planned the irrigation system?
The goverment