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
The substance brought by the annual floods, which gave the Black Lands its nickname.
What is silt?
100
These invaders from the East brought an end to the Middle Kingdom, but the Egyptians acquires chariots and bronze weapons from them.
Who are the Hyksos??
200
She was referred to as "His Majesty" to her subjects in the New Kingdom period.
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 is a serf?
200
fertile flat land made of silt left behind as the river drains into a larger body of water.
What is a Delta?
200
the title used by the rulers 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 that is immediately above the serfson the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the farmers?
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
This group, just under the Pharaoh on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid, ran the government and staged elaborate religious rituals.
What are nobles and priests?
400
the direction the Nile River flows from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt.
What is North?
400
a group of people who go on a trip for a set reason.
What is an expedition?
500
The pharaoh was portrayed as the _____ of his people during the Middle Kingdom
What is shepherd?
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 class was just below nobles and priests and above serfs on the Egyptian social scale.
What are merchants and artisans?
500
By the late 3rd millennium BCE, Egyptian merchants travelled to this area for ivory, ebony, frankincense, and leopard skins; by the end of the New Kingdom, it became the independent state of Kush.
What is Nubia?
500
the joining of separate parts into one.
What is unification?
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