Important People
Legacies
Social Pyramid
Geography
Vocabulary
100

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?

100
the watering of dry land by means of canals or pipes.
What is Irrigation?
100
the group with the least amount of people on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the Pharaohs?
100

In northeastern Africa.

Where is Egypt?

100
the practice of one person owning another person.
What is slavery?
200

The god of the Sun. He was the king of all gods and the father of all creation.

Who is Ra?

200
a reed plant that grows along the Nile, which can be used to make paper.
What is Papyrus?
200
The group that has the most people in it on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the slaves?
200

The longest river in Africa. Provides water and transport for many Egyptians.

What is the Nile?

200
the title used by the rulers of ancient Egypt.
What is pharaoh?
300

the god of war, one of the most important gods. He had the head of a falcon.

Who is Horus?

300
a system of writing that was made up of about 800 picture-signs.
What is Hieroglyphics?
300
The group that is immediately above the slaves on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the farmers?
300

The continent where Egypt is. One of the seven continents of the world.

What is Africa?

300

the way people manage money and resources for the production of goods and services.

What is economy?

400

the jackal-headed god of death and mummification. One of his roles was to decide whether souls were worthy of entering the Underworld.

Who is Anubis?

400
the people who went to school in ancient Egypt, starting at about the age of ten.
Who are boys?
400

the group that is immediately underneath the Pharaoh on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.

Who are the viziers?

400

The cardinal direction (North, South, East, West) the Nile River flows from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt.

What is North?

400
The man attributed to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.

Who was Howard Carter?

500

The last pharaoh of Egypt. Had a child with the leader of the Roman Empire Julius Caesar. 

Who is Cleopatra?
500
is a form of specific transportation that the Egyptians are said to have invented that people use today.
What is a sailboat?
500
the four groups that are in the middle of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the soldiers, scribes, merchants, and artisans?
500
The three or four-sided buildings that pharaohs had built to house their tombs and gold to take into the afterlife.

What is a pyramid?

500

The process of wrapping a body after death to preserve it for the afterlife.

What is mummification?

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