Pharoahs
Egyptian Vocabulary
Egyptian Hierarchy
Mummies
Pyramids
100

This was the original meaning of the word Pharoah.

What is Great house?

100

Egyptian waterfalls are known by this name.

What is a cataract?

100

Who is always at the top of the pyramid and was often thought of as a god in Ancient Egypt?

Who was the Pharoah?

100

This is the first step in the mummification process.

What is the announcement of death?

100

Pyramids were built for this purpose.

What is as a burial tomb for pharaohs?

200

She was the last of the Pharaohs.

Who was Cleopatra or Cleopatra VII? 

200

An area near the mouth of a river where rich deposits of soil called silt sometimes are found. It can be triangular in shape.

What is a Delta?

200

These people, handy with a pen, usually reside on the third tier of the Egyptian pyramid.

Who were the scribes?

200

This god, depicted in the Book of the Dead placed on a mummy, judged Egyptians after death using a scale with their heart on one side and a feather on the other.

Who was Osiris?

200

This type of pyramid was the first stone pyramid built in the world.

What is the step pyramid?

300

Which Pharaoh was said to have had over 100 children?

Ramses the II or Ramses the Great

300

A fabric that is woven from flax plants.

What is linen?

300

Although they are on the bottom of the pyramid, they did the most work, basically holding up Egyptian society.

Who were the slaves?

300

This is wrapped first in the mummification process.

What is the head and the neck?

300

This was the first materials used to make pyramids. 

What is mud brick?

400

This Pharaoh built the Great Pyramid, the largest pyramid ever constructed. 

Who was Khufu?

400

Belonging to the very distant past and no longer in existence.

What is Ancient?

400

These holy people usually were found on the second tier of the Egyptian pyramid.

Who were the priests?

400

This is done to the body to keep it from decomposing.

What is to embalm it?

400

The pyramids were built during this Kingdom in Egypt.

What is the old kingdom?

500

She was the first female Pharaoh who often dressed like a man in order to rule.

Who was Hatshepsut?

500

God and Goddesses in a Polytheistic religion.

What are dieties?

500

These people usually made up the middle class of Egyptian society, just above the farmers and skilled workers.

Who were the artisans or craftspeople?

500

The number of days a body is dried out before continuing with the mummification process.

What is 40?

500

Snefru built this Pyramid with a colorful name when his first attempt at the Bent Pyramid didn't turn out to his liking.

What is the Red Pyramid?

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