Vocabulary & Civilizations
A ruler believed to be part god.
What is a pharaoh?
The idea of truth, balance, and order.
What is Ma’at?
Who was at the top of the social pyramid?
What is the pharaoh.
Who recorded information like taxes and harvests?
What is scribes
What river was the lifeline of Ancient Egypt?
What is "The Nile River."
A person who could read and write records.
What is a scribe?
What were Egyptians hoping for in the afterlife?
What is "Eternal peace / a good life after death.
Who was at the very bottom of the pyramid?
What is a Peasants and farmers.
What job grew the food?
What is farmers.
Name one reason the Nile was important to Egypt.
What is "It provided water for farming / allowed transportation / created fertile soil."
An advanced society with government, cities, jobs, and culture.
What is a civilization?
What Egyptian ceremony involved comparing your heart to a feather?
What is "The Weighing of the Heart ceremony."
Why was the social pyramid shaped with a small top and a wide bottom?
What is a few people had power at the top, many people worked at the bottom.
Why were artisans important?
What is they made tools, jewelry, pottery, and goods for trade.
What are natural barriers?
What is "Physical features that protect a place from invasion (deserts, mountains)."
A system that organizes people by class or power.
What is hierarchy?
What happened if your heart was heavier than the feather of Ma’at?
What is " Would eat your heart and you wouldn’t reach the afterlife."
Which level included skilled workers like painters and metalworkers?
What is Artisans.
Name two jobs and explain why they mattered.
What is scribe, farmer, merchant, priest, soldier, artisan — with explanation.
Name two natural barriers that protected Ancient Egypt.
What is "The Sahara Desert and the Eastern Desert / Mediterranean Sea / cataracts."
What is One similarity and one difference between Mesopotamia & Egypt.
Similarity: Both had rivers and farming.
Difference: Egypt had one pharaoh; Mesopotamia had many kings and city-states.
How did belief in the afterlife affect how Egyptians lived?
They tried to live morally, follow Ma’at, obey the gods, and prepare for burial.
Which group do YOU think worked the hardest? Explain your reasoning.
peasants/farmers usually correct. Student choice
Why was farming the MOST important job in Ancient Egypt?
What is Farming fed the entire civilization and kept the economy stable.
Explain why “The Nile was Egypt’s lifeline.”
What is "Because all Egyptian survival depended on it — farming, drinking water, trade, travel, fresh soil."