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This person can be found at the top of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
Who is the pharaoh?
These people farmed on the lands of the estates. They were on the bottom of the social pyramid.
Who are the pheasants and servants?
They built the famous pyramids during this time. 2686 - 2182 B.C
What is the Old Kingdom?
A complex system of writing that used pictures
What are hieroglyphics?
This large body of water is to the north of Egypt
and provided protection from that direction.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The city where the Great Pyramid is located
What is Giza?
Had the knowledge of reading and writing. Considered upper/middle class.
Who is the Scribes?
During this period art and literature flourished. They also conquered Nubia during this time.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
Tools used on stone tablets or walls
What are chisels and hammers?
This divided Upper and Lower Egypt in early Ancient Egypt
What is the Nile River?
This term refers to the spiritual body
What is Ka?
Highest officials that work under the pharoah.
Who are the viziers, priests, and nobles
(Must name 2 of these for points )
During the Old Kingdom Egypt had their very first one of these.
What is dynasty?
A simplified version of hieroglyphics using dashes and strokes to represent the pictures
What is hieratic script?
Known as the "Two Lands"
What is Ancient Egypt?
Horse-drawn vehicles that the Egyptians used for war
What are chariots?
Middle Class workers. Lived in the villages comfortably but not wealthy.
Who is the merchants and craftspeople?
Hatshepsut reigned during this period
What is the New Kingdom?
A large stone discovered by a French scholar that led to us understanding all heiroglyphics
What is the Rosetta Stone?
In addition to the annual flooding of the Nile River,
ancient and modern Egyptian farmers still use this
technology in their farming.
What is irrigation?
This person is in charge of government bureaucracy
Who are the viziers?
During the Old Kingdom this was the capital
What is Memphis?
A material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface
What is papyrus?
The northern part of Egypt, where the Delta flows into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Lower Egypt?