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a pharaoh who ruled from about the age of 9 to 19. His tomb remained untouched until 1922 when it was discovered.
Who is Tutankhamun?
100
a reed plant that grows along the Nile, which can be used to make paper.
What is Papyrus?
100
the group with the least amount of people on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the Pharaohs?
100

An fertile area of land between two rivers near present day Iraq.

What is the Fertile Crescent? Or Mesopotamia

100
the practice of one person owning another person.
What is slavery?
200
a pharaoh who organized a two-year trading expedition to Punt.
Who is Hatshepsut?
200
the direction the Nile River flows from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt.
What is North?
200

The group on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid who mummified people.

What are the priests?

200

The name of the written language before hieroglyphics.

What is cuneiform?

200
the title used by the rulers of ancient Egypt.
What is pharaoh?
300
the pharaoh that ordered the building of the Great Pyramid.
Who is Khufu?
300
a system of writing that was made up of about 800 picture-signs.
What is Hieroglyphics?
300

The group that is immediately above the slaves on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.

What is the peasants? Or farmers

300

A king who created a set of laws, etched into a large black stone.

Who is Hammurabi?

300
the watering of dry land by means of canals or pipes.
What is Irrigation?
400
the pharaoh that unified Lower and Upper Egypt and became the first pharaoh.
Who is Menes?
400

The people who went to school in ancient Egypt to learn to read and write, starting at about the age of ten.

Who are boys?

400
the group that is immediately underneath the Pharaoh on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the government officials?
400

Name one characteristic of a civilization? (What makes a civilization?)

Stable food supply
Social structure
System of government
Religious system
Culture (arts, music, literature)
Technology
Written language

400

Name one reason that an ancient written language is important?

To see into the past
Words were considered "from gods"
Keeping track of information

500
the pharaoh who drove the Hyksos out of the Nile Delta and got the land back for Egypt.
Who is Ahmose?
500

These people could own their own business, get a divorce, and even rule as pharaoh.

What is women?

500

This group carried their own equipment and worked on papyrus on in tombs. 

What are the Scribes?

500

This city on the Nile River was home to "The Hanging Gardens of Babylon", and the "Ishtar Gate".

What is Babylon?

500
the way people manage money and resources for the production of goods and services.
What is economy?