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
One of the greatest achievements during Ancient Egypt times
What are The Pyramids of Giza?
100
the group with the least amount of people on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the Pharaohs?
100
This waterway divides Upper and Lower Egypt
What is the Nile River?
100
a simplified version of hieroglyphics
What is hieratic script?
200
a pharaoh who established the first dynasty and united Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt
Who is Menes?
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 servants and peasants?
200
The location of the Great Pyramids.
What is Giza?
200
A process that the Egyptians practiced to prevent dead bodies from rotting.
What is mummification?
300
the pharaoh that changed the religion to a monotheistic religion
Who is Akhenaten?
300
a system of writing that was made up of about 800 picture-signs.
What is Hieroglyphics?
300
The group above the peasants and servants. They are the middle class workers.
What are the merchants and craftspeople?
300
the southern area of ancient Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
300
A type of government in the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt
What is bureaucracy?
400
the pharaoh that was the first woman pharaoh
Who is Hatshepsut?
400
A large stone inscribed with a passage used to decode hieroglyphics. It was found within the Nile River in the 1900s.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
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
The Egyptians believed each soul had two bodies – a spiritual one and a physical one. This term is the spiritual body.
What is Ka?
500
the pharaoh who drove the Hyksos out of the Nile Delta and got the land back for Egypt.
Who is Ahmose?
500
The use of war chariots, bronze for weapons and farming, and the mastery of military skills
Benefits of the Hyksos
500
The group above the scribes. They are the highest officials that work under the pharaoh.
What are the viziers, priests, and nobles?
500
The place on both sides of the Nile which is uninhabited, dry, and has deserts.
What is the Red Lands?
500
Time period in which Egypt expanded and its government was stable
What is the Middle Kingdom?
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