Power Words
What does Bureaucracy mean?
Government
Who is at the top?
Pharaoh- the ruler of Egypt
Who was buried in tombs?
Pharaoh
Egypt is the gift of the __________
Nile
As a way to decontaminate a body, mummies were washed inside and out with...
WINE
Vizier
Person in charge of governement
Who is under the Pharaoh?
Vizier, Priests, Nobles- Highest officials
What did they use to write?
hammer and chisel
Egyptians waited for the yearly floods to deposit a layer of _______ to help the crops grow
SILT
What was the useless part of the body?
The brain
Describe the Black Lands, why important
Fertile land near the River. Villages developed along the river so they could farm.
Who are the most educated in Egypt?
Scribes because they have knowledge of reading and writing
Ancient Egypt was divided into separate countries...
Upper and Lower
Ancient Egyptian History is divided up into how many time periods or "Kingdoms." Name them
3 old, middle new
Egyptians mummified their dead because they believed...
They would use it in their afterlife
KA?
A spiritual side of the body that lives in the afterlife
Merchants & Craftspeople
The Egyptians invented this type of math to help them measure shapes and buildings accurately
Geometry
In ancient Egypt, the Pharaohs were both a ________ and __________
King and God
God of death who would weigh a person's heart to see if they were worthy of an afterlife
Osiris
Northern part of Egypt
Who is at the bottom and what did they do?
Peasants and servants- farmers
What was the form of writing that used pictures to understand things?
Hieroglyphics
Egyptian paper, called papyrus, was made out of what?
River Reeds
This stone is what allowed French historians to finally decode hieroglyphics in the 1800s
Rosetta Stone