Pharaohs
Geography
Achievements
Social Hierarchy
Vocabulary
100
A pharaoh who ruled from about the age of 9 to 19.
What is Tutankhamun?
100
A mixture of tiny bits of rock and soil deposited by a river that would have been found in the Nile Delta area
What is silt?
100
The watering of dry land by the use 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
A waterfall or rapids in a river
What is cataract?
200
The first female pharaoh known for peacefully expanding the New Kingdom through trade
What is Hatshepsut?
200
Fertile flat land made of silt left behind as the river drains into a larger body of water
What is a Delta?
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
A bucket attached to a long pole used to transfer river water to storage basins
What is shadoof?
300
The leader who unified Upper and Lower Egypt and became the first pharaoh
What is Menes?
300
The southern area of ancient Egypt
What is Upper Egypt?
300
A system of writing that was made up of 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 process of treating a body to prevent it from decaying
What is embalming?
400
Pharaoh Menes was also known as
What is Narmer?
400
The direction the Nile River flows from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt
What is North?
400
The people who went to school in ancient Egypt, starting at the age of ten
Who are boys?
400
The group that is immediately underneath the pharaoh on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid
What is government officials?
400
A government of religious leaders
What is theocracy?
500
The pharaoh who drove the Hyksos out of the Nile Delta and got the land back for Egypt
What is Ahmose
500
The place that Egypt conquered twice and adopted the culture of the Egyptians
What is Nubia?
500
Nubians adopted many Egyptian beliefs and customs. This is known as
What is cultural diffusion?
500
The four groups of people that are in the middle of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid
What are the soldiers, scribes, merchants and artisans?
500
A government representative to another country
What is envoy?
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