Pharaohs
Legacies
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.
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
a dead body preserved in a lifelike condition
What is a mummy?
200
a pharaoh who organized a two-year trading expedition to Punt.
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.
Who are the peasants?
200
fertile flat land made of silt left behind as the river drains into a larger body of water such as the Mediterranean Sea
What is a Delta?
200
smooth soft cloth made of fibers of the flax plant.
What is linen?
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 that is immediately below the scribes on the social pyramid
Who are the merchants?
300
the southern area of ancient Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
300
the way people manage money and resources for the production of goods and services.
What is economy?
400
the pharaoh that unified Lower and Upper Egypt and became the first pharaoh.
Who is Menes?
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 is the government officials?
400
the direction the Nile River flows from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt.
What is North?
400
complete control over something or someone.
What is absolute power? (Egyptian pharaohs had this)
500
the pharaoh was known for his significant military victories because he won many battles outnumbered.
Who is Rameses II
500
is a form of specific transportation that the Egyptians are said to have invented that people use today.
What is a sailboat?
500
This group on the social pyramid were sometimes captured in war. This group did have some rights including owning their own property.
Who were slaves?
500
the place that Egypt conquered twice because of its gold.
What is Nubia?
500
Egyptians astronomers noticed the sun appeared to rise rapidly about the same time they could see this star.
What is ( Sirius, the Dog Star)
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