Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Geography
Social Class
Pharaohs
100
your social studies teacher
Who is Ms. McGraw?
100
canals and ditches for moving water to plants
What is irrigation?
100
Egypt's main highway
What is the Nile River?
100
Farmers, peasant, unskilled workers
What is on the bottom of the social pyramid?
100
A structure built by pharaohs to contain their body for the afterlife
What is a pyramid?
200
plant used to make paper
What is papyrus?
200
person who writes for a living
What is a scribe?
200
Seasonal event that Egyptians waited for before planting
What are the floods?
200
A social pyramid is organized by ____________
What is occupations (or social class)?
200
considered to be both a god and a king
What is a pharaoh?
300
vitamins for the soil
What is silt?
300
type of writing used in ancient Egypt
What is hieroglyphics?
300
Sea into which the Nile flows
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
300
a diagram showing the social classes from highest to lowest
What is a social pyramid?
300
a pharaoh who died as a teenager under mysterious circumstances
Who is King Tut?
400
ranking or listing of social classes
What is a social hierarchy?
400
second highest group in the social pyramid; people with money and land
Who are the nobles?
400
You can find the most fertile land of Egypt here.
What is the Nile Delta?
400
group of people with the same level of education and power
What is a social class?
400
adviser to the pharaoh
What is a vizier?
500
series of rulers from the same family or ethnic group
What is a dynasty?
500
Stone with translations of hieroglyphics, demotic, and ancient Greece
What is the Rosetta Stone?
500
The Egyptians called these two types of land the Red Land and Black Land.
What are the desert land (red) and the fertile land (black)?
500
higher social classes have more education while lower classes have less education
What is the relationship between social class and education
500
Time periods is ancient Egypt are organized by ______.
What is a kingdom?
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