Vocabulary
The Social Pyramid
Culture
Beliefs and Religion
Potpourri
100
Fine soil deposited by a river or stream
Silt
100
The group at the bottom of the social pyramid.
Slaves
100
True or false: Egyptians thought of death in a positive way?
True
100
God of the Sun
Re (Ray)
100
The first mineral mined by Egyptians.
Copper
200
A type of fabric woven from the flax plant.
Linen
200
This small group was responsible for teaching about religion.
Priests
200
Name 2 things that the Ancient Egyptians grew.
Wheat, watermelon, grapes, figs, dates.
200
Osiris' wife and God of fertility.
Isis
200
Which direction does the Nile flow?
South to North
300
The "highway" of Ancient Egypt.
The Nile
300
People who sold goods to others.
Merchants
300
True or false: Most Egyptian children married at a young age?
True
300
What was Anubis the god of?
The dead
300
Name the 2 ways that Egyptians knew the flood was coming.
Ibisis and Sirius
400
Life after death.
The afterlife.
400
How many pharaohs were at the top of the social pyramid?
One
400
Did ancient Egyptian men and women have the same rights?
Yes.
400
What organ was the weighed to see if a person got into the afterlife.
The heart
400
Name on Sea that you see on a map of Egypt
Red or Mediterranean
500
A term used to describe the mineral rich soil that is good for growing crops.
Fertile
500
Some of the only people on the social pyramid that were able to write and take records.
Scribes
500
What was on reason that people were put into slavery in Ancient Egypt?
They committed a crime, owed money (debt),
500
Name one mineral or stone that Egyptians mined.
Turquoise or copper
500
God of judgement
Osiris
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