Vocabulary
The letter used by ancient Egyptians?
What are hieroglyphics?
The longest river in Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
Two symbols of a pharoah's authority that were buried with them
What is a flail and crook?
The most important environmental factor in early human settlement.
What is water?
The group with the least amount of people on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are Pharaohs?
A carved tablet bearing an inscription
What is a cartouche?
The sea between the Nubian and Arabian Desert.
What is the Red Sea?
He was known for building the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Who was Khufu?
Landform that is least inhabited by early settlers because of the dry, arid earth.
What is the desert?
The group directly above peasants in the social pyramid?
What are artisans?
All the plants and trees in a region.
What is vegetation?
Located at the mouth of the Jordan River.
What is the Sea of Galilee?
The pharaoh of architecture.
Who was Senusret?
It provides food, shade, grass and all plant life, making areas desirable for settling.
How does vegetation affect settlement?
Most government officials came from these.
What are noble families?
The physical features of an area.
What is topography?
Located east of the Jordan River and Dead Sea.
What is the Syrian Desert?
He was found almost-intact in his tomb.
Who is King Tut?
There jagged peaks, cold temperatures, and rocky land made farming and settling difficult.
What are mountains?
A group in society that is ranked by factors such as wealth, property and rights.
What is social class?
A member of a people having no permanent abode, who travel from place to place.
What is a nomad?
Located west of the Dead Sea.
What is the Negev Desert?
She was one of the first female Pharaohs.
Who was Hatshepsut?
The Egyptians and Kushites both settled near here.
What is the Nile River?
The vizier, chief treasure and general of the armies are a part of this group.
What are government officials?