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Pharaohs
Legacies
Social Pyramid
Geography
Vocabulary
100
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
the watering of dry land by means of canals or pipes.
What is Irrigation?
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

the shape and elevation of surface features, such as mountains or deserts, of a place or region

What is topography?

200

the woman pharaoh who concentrated on building the Egyptian economy.

Who is Hatshepsut?

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 peasants?

200
fertile flat land made of silt left behind as the river drains into a larger body of water.
What is a Delta?
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 peasants on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.

What is the artisans?

300

the three important factors that greatly affected where ancient people settled.

What is water, topography, and vegetation?

300

the longest river in the world, flowing through eastern Africa to a delta in northeastern Egypt

What is the Nile River?

400

the ruler who hated his aunt and destroyed all of her temples.

Who is Thutmose III?

400

the people who went to school in ancient Egypt, starting at about the age of ten.

Who are boys (scribes)?

400

the group that is immediately underneath the Pharaoh on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.

What is the government officials?

400
the direction the Nile River flows from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt.
What is North?
400

symbols used in Egyptian writing

What is hieroglyphs?

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

Egyptian invention to prevent the pharaoh's body from decaying.

What is embalming?

500

the four groups that are in the middle of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.

What are the government officials, priests, scribes, and artisans?

500

the two major vegetation zones in Egypt and the Middle East.

What is desert and desert scrub?

500

forced payment sent to the pharaoh by conquered peoples

What is tribute?