Vocabulary
Upper Class
Middle Class
Lower Class
Who Am I?
100
What is the name of the material scribes used to write on?
What is papyrus.
100
Name one aspect of the priests' jobs.
What is offering sacrifices to the gods to keep them happy. What is feeding and changing the statues in the temple. What is maintaining the temple.
100
Name one weapon used by the hunters or fishers to hunt animals.
What a boomerang, harpoon, net, spear, or wooden hammer.
100
Name one job a slave could have had.
What is mining, building pyramids, or serving Pharaoh.
100
A typical day for me might include traveling on the Nile in hopes of bartering for an animal skin or exotic wood.
Who is a trader.
200
Name the system of writing the Egyptians used.
What is Hieroglyphics.
200
If you came to me, I might have performed surgery on you or given you a crushed up hog's tooth in a sugar cake. Who am I?
Who is a doctor.
200
Name the plant that linen was made from.
What is flax.
200
Name one way a person might become a slave.
What is being captured in war, owing a debt, or committing a crime.
200
I play games with others, learning a job from my father or mother and I am expected to get married once I become a teenager.
Who is a child.
300
The waterfalls in the south that churn the Nile and help it flow North.
What are cataracts.
300
One animal a hunter would typically kill for food.
What is a crocodile, hippopotamus, quail, ducks, or geese.
300
Name at least two goods artisans regularly made.
What is stone or brick houses, pottery, incense, mats, furniture, linen clothing, sandals, or jewelry.
300
Name two of the materials Egyptian miners would dig for.
What is copper, iron, gold, bronze, turquoise, or lapis lazuli.
300
I used geometric shapes in order to decorate temples and monuments. I also might have surveyed and restored the land if it washed away in a flood.
Who is a mathematician.
400
The fertile land near the Nile was called ____ land. The desert land farther away from the Nile was called _____ land.
What is black land and red land
400
I am actually in a separate class that's only for me.
Who is Pharaoh.
400
What are the materials the house-builders used in order to make bricks?
What is mud and chopped straw.
400
Name one reason Egypt was a good place for women to live.
What is women had equal rights, could own property, be in any class, have government positions, or work alongside their husbands.
400
I believed the heart controlled thought and the brain circulated blood.
Who is a doctor.
500
What is the name of the tool farmers used to spread water and irrigate their fields?
What is a shaduf.
500
What is the name of the star the astronomers would watch in order to predict when the Nile would flood each year?
What is Sirius.
500
Name one fruit and one vegetable grown by Egyptian farmers.
What are figs, dates, grapes, or watermelon AND lettuce, radishes, asparagus, or cucumbers.
500
The area of the upper Nile that had the richest gold mines in Egypt.
What is Nubia.
500
I am the god who judged the Egyptians in the afterlife.
Who is Osiris.
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