Pharaohs
Technology
Social Pyramid
Geography
Vocabulary
100
a pharaoh who ruled from about the age of 9 to 19. His tomb remained untouched until 1922 when it was discovered by Howard Carter.
Who is Tutankhamun?
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
a mixture of tiny bits of rock and soil deposited by a river that would have been found in Lower Egypt.
What is silt?
100
the practice of one person owning another person.
What is slavery?
200
a pharaoh who organized a two-year trading expedition to Punt and is know as the first woman pharaoh
Who is Hatshepsut?
200
a reed plant that grows along the Nile, which can be used to make paper.
What is Papyrus?
200
The group that has the most people in it on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the peasants?
200
fertile flat land made of silt left behind as the river drains into a larger body of water, in this case, the Mediterranean Sea.
What is a Delta?
200
the title used by the rulers or kings of ancient Egypt.
What is pharaoh?
300
the pharaoh that ordered the building of the Great Pyramid.
Who is Khufu?
300
a system of writing that was made up of about 800 picture-signs.
What is Hieroglyphics?
300
The group made up of prisoners of war.
What are the slaves?
300
the southern area of ancient Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
300
the worshiping of many gods or deities.
What is polytheism?
400
the pharaoh that unified Lower and Upper Egypt and became the first pharaoh.
Who is Menes or 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.
What are the priests and/or scribes?
400
the direction the Nile River flows from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt.
What is North?
400
the waterfalls found along the Nile River.
What are cataracts?
500
the woman who was the last Pharaoh of Egypt.
Who is Cleopatra VII?
500
two math operations that the Egyptians did not understand or use.
What are multiplication and division?
500
the two groups between the nobles (priests and scribes) and the peasants.
What are the soldiers and merchants/artisans?
500
the country where the Nile river begins.
What is Ethiopia?
500
the process of preserving a body or preparing it for mummification..
What is embalming?
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