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100

Controlled trade and collected taxes in the Old Kingdom.

What is bureaucrat?

100

These were used to improve Egypt by building dams and improving farmland. 

What is tribute?

100
the group with the least amount of people on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the Pharaohs?
100

a mixture of tiny bits of rock and soil deposited by a river that would have been found in Lower Egypt.

What is silt?

100
a grassy plain with some scattered trees
What is a savanna?
200

a series of rulers from the same family

What is dynasty?

200
a reed plant that grows along the Nile, which can be used to make paper.
What is Papyrus?
200

The group that has the most people in it on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.

What is the slaves and unskilled workers?

200

fan-shaped area of silt near where a river flows into the sea

What is a Delta?

200

woven cloth

What is textile?

300

the pharaoh that ordered the building of the Great Pyramid.

Who is Khufu?

300
Egyptians gained advanced knowledge in the areas of _______ and ________ building pyramids.  

What is math and science?

300
The group that is immediately above the slaves on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the farmers?
300
the southern area of ancient Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
300
a government in which the same person is the political and religious leader
What is theocracy?
400

the pharaoh who angered Egyptians by forcing them to change their religion to monotheism because he believed the priests were too powerful and wealthy

Who is Amenhotep?

400
the process of treating a body to keep it from decaying
What is embalming?
400
the group that is immediately underneath the Pharaoh on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are priests and nobles?
400
the direction the Nile River flows from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt.
What is North?
400
a bucket attached to a long pole used to transfer river water to storage basins
What is shadoof?
500

the pharaoh who drove the Hyksos out of the Nile Delta and got the land back for Egypt.

Who is Ahmose?

500
oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact
What is Great Pyramid?
500
number of levels of social status in ancient Egypt's social pyramid
What is 5?
500

a waterfall or rapids in a river

What is cataract?

500
a person who represents their country in a foreign place
What is envoy?