Egypt Geography
Social Pyramid
Kingdoms of Egypt
Key Terms
Pharaohs
100
This is the main source of water for ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
100
This group of people were at the bottom of the social pyramid.
What is a peasant or slave?
100
This is the time period known as the Age of the Pyramids.
What is the Old Kingdom.
100
This was an embalmed body, prepared for the afterlife.
What is a mummy?
100
This pharaoh was mostly famous for his tomb, but he also was responsible for restoring polytheism back to ancient Egypt.
Who is King Tut?
200
The Nile empties into this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
This person was at the top of social pyramid.
What is a pharaoh?
200
This was known as Egypt's Golden Age, where Egypt prospered and grew.
What is the New Kingdom?
200
This refers to a rapid in a river.
What is a cataract?
200
This pharaoh was the most famous female pharaoh but was also known for reigning over a time of peace, prosperity. She focused on building monuments instead of conquering new land.
Who is Hatshepsut?
300
This desert takes up most of Egypt
What is the Sahara Desert?
300
A vizier was in this social level.
What is government officials?
300
This Kingdom took place between 2600 BCE and 2200 BCE
What is the Old Kingdom?
300
This is a triangular shaped piece of land at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
300
This pharaoh was responsible for changing the religion of Egypt from worshipping many gods to worshipping one god (Aten).
Who is Akhenaten?
400
These two rivers are tributaries to the Nile, or smaller rivers that feed into the Nile.
What are the Blue and White Nile?
400
This social level was second-to-last, and these are people who make things with their hands.
What is an artisan?
400
This was known as the Period of Reunification because it came after years of chaos.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
400
This refers to the Egyptian writing system.
What is hieroglyphics?
400
This pharaoh was responsible for uniting Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Menes?
500
This part of Egypt was closest to the Nile Delta.
What is Lower Egypt?
500
This level was behind priests, but ahead of artisans.
What are scribes?
500
This was the time period when Egyptians achieved great things in art and literarture.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
500
This word refers to a ruling family.
What is a dynasty?
500
This pharaoh was responsible for bringing Egypt back from near-extinction, expanding the territory more than any other pharaoh in Egyptian history.
Who is Thutmose III?
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