Religion and Government
Legacies
Social Pyramid
Geography
Vocabulary
100
the process developed by the ancient Egyptians of preserving a person’s body after death.
What is embalming?
100
the watering of dry land by means of canals or pipes.
What is Irrigation?
100
the group with the least amount of people on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the Pharaohs?
100
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
100
the practice of one person owning another person.
What is slavery?
200
a god or goddess that controls forces of nature and human activities
What is a deity?
200
a reed plant that grows along the Nile, which can be used to make paper.
What is Papyrus?
200
The group that is the lowest on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the Unskilled Workers and Slaves?
200
area of fertile soil at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
200
the title used by the rulers of ancient Egypt.
What is pharaoh?
300
A manuscript that held a collection of spells and prayers used to obtain life after death.
What is the Book of the Dead?
300
a system of writing that was made up of about 800 picture-signs.
What is Hieroglyphics?
300
The rights given to women in ancient Egypt
What is owning property, buying and selling goods, and obtaining divorces?
300
the southern area of ancient Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
300
huge stone structure built by the ancient Egyptians to serve as a tomb
What is a pyramid?
400
the pharaoh that unified Lower and Upper Egypt and became the first pharaoh.
Who is King Narmer?
400
the people who went to school in ancient Egypt, starting at about the age of ten.
Who are boys?
400
the group that is immediately underneath the Pharaoh on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
Who are the priests and nobles?
400
The nickname that the Egyptians gave their land because of the silt deposits; "kemet"
What is Black Land?
400
a line of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
500
The husband/wife duo that ruled over the dead
Who are Isis and Osiris?
500
a bucket attached to a long pole used to lift water from the Nile River to basins (bowl-shaped holes in the earth to trap water) and help with farming
What is a shadoof?
500
the three groups that are in the middle of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid. (Give two types of people in each group)
What are the priests and nobles, traders and artisans, and farmers and herders?
500
One of the two separate rivers that begin the Nile River; the one comes from the mountains of eastern Africa.
What is the Blue Nile?
500
an animal, such as a mule or donkey, that is used for carrying loads
What is a beast of burden?
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