Vocabulary
Egyptian writing system
What are hieroglyphics?
Kemet or"black land"?
What is black, rich soil?
A government in which the same person is the political AND religious leader.
What is a theocracy?
Pyramid
What is a tomb for a Pharaoh?
Linen cloth, jewelry, pottery,metal goods.
What did artisans make?
Dangerous, fast moving waters
What are cataracts?
The two sources of the Nile.
What are the Blue Nile and the White Nile?
Re
Who was the sun god?
Imhotep
Who was the first great engineer?
White linen clothes, eye makeup and jewelry.
What did the upper class people wear?
A fan-shaped area of fertile marshland.
What is a delta?
A shadoof
What is a bucket attached to a long pole that lifts water from the Nile and into basins?
Hapi
Who was the river god?
Cairo
Where is the Great Pyramid located?
Two parents and their children.
What is a nuclear family.
An Egyptian ruler.
What is a Pharoah?
A reed plant that grew wild along the Nile.
What is papyrus?
Osiris and Isis
Who did Egyptians think ruled over the world of the dead?
King Khufu
Who is buried in the Great Pyramid?
Traders, artisans and scribes
Who was in the Egyptian middle class?
A process that kept bodies from decaying.
What is embalming?
He unified Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt.
Who was Narmer?
Natron
What is the salt that dried up the water in a dead body?
More than 2 million
How many stone blocks were used in the Great Pyramid?
The family
What was the most important group in ancient Egyptian society?