Vocabulary
a complex society with cities, government, and job specialization.
What is "Civilization"?
The highest person in Egyptian society
What is the pharaoh?
The first female pharaoh
Who is Hatshepsut?
The Nile was called this because it provided water, silt, and transportation for trade in Egypt
The people who oversaw the temples and religious rituals as well as performed healings
What are priests?
This discovery allowed modern people to read Egyptian writing
What is the Rosetta Stone?
A trade system where goods are exchanged without money
What is "barter"?
Highly skilled workers who created beautiful and useful items
What is an artisan?
The pharaoh who signed the first known peace treaty
Who is Ramses II
The flooding, planting, and harvest seasons
What is Ahket, Peret, and Shemu?
Mummies were created for this purpose
What is preserving the body for the afterlife?
The Egyptian writing system
What is hieroglyphics?
The belief in many gods
What is "Polytheism"?
People who worked the land, built things for the pharaoh, and made up the largest class in society
What are the peasants?
The pharaoh, known for controlling the food supply, also controlled the people
Who was Khufu?
The area where the Nile fans out into many branches before the Mediterranean
What is the Nile Delta?
The process of removing the brain and the internal organs
What is embalming?
Used to predict the floods of the Nile
What is a calendar?
A professional writer/record keeper in ancient societies
Who is a "scribe"?
The people who worked directly for the pharaoh and ran the armies
Who are the government officials?
The youngest pharaoh, who also had the shortest reign
Who was Tutankhamun?
The dark, fertile soil left by the Nile floods and the hot, dry desert that borders Egypt
What are the Black Lands and the Red Lands?
The test where a heart is weighed to determine admission to the afterlife
What is the feather test?
The moon god used the cycles of the moon to create the calendar
Who is Thoth?
A long line of rulers from the same family.
What is a "dynasty"?
One whose job it was to record important information in Egypt
Who is a scribe?
Egyptians believed pharaohs were this god on earth
Who was Horus?
Where Upper Egypt is located
What is south?
Explained natural elements, guided daily life, and shaped afterlife beliefs
What is religion?
Became a scribe after 12 years of school
Who are the wealthy, boys?
Large areas of territory ruled by one person
born into a social class/job
What is inherited?
Took the divine power (communicating with the gods) from the pharaoh
What is an oracle?
The direction the Nile River Flows
What is north?
Created so the soul could find and reunite with the correct body
What is a cartouche?
The topography created natural barriers to protect the people of Egypt
What are deserts and mountains?
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