Religion
The practice of preserving the body after death.
What is mummification?
The watering of dry land by means of canals or pipes.
What is Irrigation?
The most powerful person on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the Pharaohs?
The river that runs down the middle of ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile?
The practice of one person owning another person.
What is slavery?
The sun god.
Who is Ra?
Oxen pulled these in the fields.
What is a plow.
The lowest group in the ancient Egyptian social structure, with no rights or money.
What is the slaves?
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 most common trade route for Egypt.
What is the Nile river.
The people not allowed in temples.
What is common people (or poor people).
A system of writing that was made up of about 800 picture-signs.
What is Hieroglyphics?
The number of female pharoahs.
What is one.
The southern area of ancient Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
The way people manage money and resources for the production of goods and services.
What is economy?
The place where pharoahs were buried.
What is land of the dead (or pyramids)
The people who went to school in ancient Egypt, starting at about the age of ten.
Who are boys?
These are the people that write all the pharoahs orders and letters.
What are scribes.
The body of water that the Nile river flows into.
What is the Mediterranean Sea.
What is clay.
The word for a religion that worships many gods.
What is polytheistic.
A form of specific transportation that the Egyptians are said to have invented and used for trade.
What is a sailboat?
The working class that makes all the goods for the tombs.
What are artisans.
Fertile flat land made of silt left behind as the river drains into a larger body of water and forms a fan shape.
What is a delta.
One of the items that Egypt imported.
What is gold, ivory or cedar wood.