Society and Culture
At the bottom of the social class pyramid in Ancient Egypt.
Who were unskilled workers and slaves?
A complex writing system that made up of a combination of pictures and sound symbols.
What is hieroglyphics?
The longest river in the world that Ancient Egyptians built their civilization and relied on.
What is The Nile?
A government where the same person is both the religious and political leader.
What is a theocracy?
A bucket with a long pole that was used to transport water from the Nile.
What is a shadoof?
By about 4000 BC, Ancient Egypt was made up of these two Kingdoms.
What are Upper and Lower Egypt?
Unlike Mesopatamia, the Ancient Egyptians were able to predict this, which helped when it came to farming and agriculture.
What is flooding?
Growing along the Nile, Ancient Egyptians used this plant to not only make paper, but also to make sandals, baskets, river rafts and to weave rope.
What is papyrus?
The two tributaries of the Nile River.
What are the Blue Nile and the White Nile? What are the Blue and White Nile?
Originally meaning "great house" this individual was the ruler of Ancient Egypt.
Who is the pharaoh?
A large, fan shaped area that is rich in silt, where a river empties out into the sea.
What is a delta?
Ancient Egypt's 3 distint time periods.
What are the Old Kingdom, New Kingdom and Middle Kingdom?
Nobles, preists and Army Commanders were apart of this Ancient Egyptian Social Class.
What is the Upper Class?
The process of treating a dead body to prevent it from decay.
What is mummification or embalming?
This harsh, barren landscape surrounded Ancient Egypt, making invasion from other civilizations difficult.
What are deserts? Will also accept Libyan, Saharan and Eastern Deserts.
Multiple God worship. Some examples included having many Gods such as Anubis, Osiris and Hapi.
What is polytheistic or polytheism?
Large tombs that were built for pharaohs for their burial.
What are pyramids?
Hunters and gatherers started moving into the Nile River Valley around this time period.
What is 5000 BCE? What is 5000BC?
Women had more of these in Ancient Egypt than in earlier civilizations. An example of this is Nefertiti being queen.
What are rights? What is political power?
Ancient Egyptians took advantage of this natural feature, which helped in travel and trade. This helped push sailboats move back south.
What are wind patterns?
The Nile River delta empties out into this large of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The citizens of Ancient Egypt believed that the pharaoh was the son of this Egyptian Sun God.
Who is Re?
A line of rulers that come from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
This leader was responsible for uniting Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Narmer? Also will accept who is Menes?
With the assistance of Osiris, Ancient Egyptians rich and poor were hopeful for this after death.
Ancient Egyptians were rather advanced in medicine. They are the civilization first responsible for this.
What are the first medical books?
This Civilization emerged in Southern Egypt.
What is Kush?
Government officials appointed by the pharaoh to carry out orders. They supervised the construction and repairing of dams, canals and granaries.
What are bureaucrats?
Dangerous, fast moving rapids that were located in the Nile River.
What are cataracts?
This time period in Ancient Egypt lasted from 2600 BC- 2200 BC.
What is the Old Kingdom?