Vocabulary
Achievements
Social Hierarchy
Short Answer
100
Egyptians believed you would enter this after you die.
What is the afterlife?
100
This was made out of reeds and was used by scribes.
What is papyrus?
100
This king ruled at the top as a God.
Who is pharaoh?
100
Describe a sphinx.
What is a creature with the body of a lion and the head of another animal or human.
200
Huge stone tombs with four triangle shaped sides that meet at a single point.
What is a pyramid?
200
Hieroglyphs covered these tall 4-sided structures with a pointed top.
What is an obelisk?
200
Farmers, servants, and slaves were in this layer of the social hierarchy.
What is the bottom?
200
Hatshepsut was famous for the following accomplishment.
What is expanding trade?
300
These are paths followed by traveling traders.
What are trade routes?
300
Tourists are always interested in tombs because of these colorful depictions.
What are paintings?
300
These are people who produced goods or wrote for pharaoh.
What are craftspeople and scribes?
300
The Rosetta Stone was significant for this reason.
What is it helped translate hieroglyphics?
400
The Egyptian civilization reached the height of its power and glory during this period.
What is the New Kingdom?
400
The Egyptian writing system contained this many symbols.
What is 600?
400
Below pharaoh were nobles who helped run the following 2 things.
What are temples and the government?
400
Tutankhamen's tomb provided this kind of information.
What is information about burial practices?
500
He was pharaoh of the Old Kingdom. Not much is known about him.
Who is Khufu?
500
We know much about Egyptian life through government texts and medical manuals. These texts survived through the years for this reason.
What is papyrus did not decay because of the dry climate?
500
List all the classes in the correct order from top to bottom.
What is pharaoh, nobles, scribes and craftspeople, farmers, servants, and slaves.
500
Ramses the Great was known for this strength in the Middle Kingdom.
What is military strength?
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