SSTerms
Phara-OH!s
Stay Classy!
Geography
Mixed Bag
100
This is a person who would do farmwork for wealthy landowners
What is a peasant?
100
This person was the first pharaoh who was a woman
Who is Hatshepsut?
100
A boy from a peasant household could do this, to rise to a higher social class.
What is go to scribe school?
100
Egypt is located on this continent
What is Africa?
100
These are the 7 characteristics of a civilization
What are Government, Religion, Arts, Social Structure, Stable Food Supply, Writing, and Technology?
200
This is a pyramid outline that shows the positions of social classes according to their status in society
What is a social pyramid?
200
Khufu claimed to be this, to ensure that his power would be accepted.
What is a god?
200
This was the lowest social class in Egyptian society
What are peasants?
200
This is one reason that the Nile River is famous
What is it is the longest river in the world?
200
This was the largest social class in Egyptian society.
What is Peasants?
300
This person is of high birth or rank
What is a noble?
300
This was a type of paper that scribes used to write
What is papyrus?
300
This was a peasant's main job in Egyptian society
What is farming?
300
This is the direction that the Nile River flows?
What is north?
300
This was Egypt's form of writing
What is hieroglyphics?
400
This was ruler of ancient Egypt
What is a pharaoh?
400
More than any pharaoh in history, Ramses II produced more of these?
What are temples and monuments?
400
Peasants did this, when the Nile River flooded its banks
What is assisted with building temples?
400
The topography of northern Africa is mainly this
What is desert?
400
Most peasants lived in this type of house
What is mudbrick?
500
Women enjoyed more freedom in Egyptian society. Name one thing that women could do in Egypt.
Any one of these is correct: What is Own Land. Run Businesses. Ask For a Divorce. Represent Themselves in Legal Matters. Worked as Doctors. Worked as Government Officials. Worked as Priestesses.
500
The Great Pyramid of Giza is estimated to have been built using this many stone blocks
What is 2 million?
500
These are the 3 factors that influenced where people settled, in ancient times
What are topography, water, and vegetation?
500
The Nile River empties into this body of water
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
500
This is the reason that social classes in Egypt are structured like a pyramid (meaning it's smaller at the top and larger at the bottom)
What is most people were at the bottom and very few were at the top?
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