Vocabulary
The highest rulers in Ancient Egypt
Who are the Pharaohs?
The city where the Great Pyramid is located
What is Giza?
contained tombs for pharaohs who passed away
What are pyramids?
Who was the first woman to become Pharaoh?
Who is Hatshepsut?
Which kingdom is the "Age of the Pyramids"?
the spiritual body that lived in the afterlife
What is Ka?
located on both sides of the Nile, this place was unhabitable because it was too hot to live there.
What are the red lands?
Egyptians used these to write on stone tablets and walls
What are chisels and hammers?
the highest officials under Pharaoh
Who are viziers, priests, and nobles?
During this Kingdom Egypt expanded its territory
What is the Middle Kingdom?
Type of government in the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt
What is bureaucracy?
Natural barriers that kept Egypt safe from invaders and protected its people and culture
What are deserts, mountains, and the Nile River?
What is Mummification?
the most educated groups in the social hierarchy
What are the upper hierarchy groups, especially the scribes?
This Kingdom is remembered for the organization of bureaucracy
What is the Old Kingdom?
This area was named for the dark soil left by the Nile's yearly flooding
What are the Black Lands?
This divided Upper and Lower Egypt
What is the Nile River?
a simplified version of hieroglyphics
What is hieratic script?
Merchants and craftspeople made up this social class
What is the middle class?
This kingdom is known for being the most prosperous and powerful
What is the New Kingdom?
The northern par of Egypt, where the Nile flows into the Mediterranean Sea
What is lower Egypt?
This city was made the Capital during the Old Kingdom
What is Memphis?
This was removed placed in what kind of jars during the mummification process
What are liver, lungs, stomach, brain, and intestines in canopic jars?
This group of people invaded and ruled Egypt for about 100 years
What are the Hyksos?
After the defeat of the Hyksos, reunification took place during this Kingdom
What is the Middle Kingdom?