Religion/Society
worship of many gods
What is Polytheism?
the watering of dry land by means of canals.
What is Irrigation?
Head of the government
What are Pharaohs?
longest river in the world
What is the Nile River?
owned everything in the kingdom
What is the Pharaoh?
In the Egyptian social pyramid, this group has the least amount of people.
What is the Pharaoh?
a reed plant that grows along the Nile, which can be used to make paper.
What is Papyrus?
Three historical time-periods of ancient Egypt
What is the Old Kingdom, New Kingdom and Old Kingdom?
A triangle-shaped area of fertile soil left behind at the mouth of a river as it drains into a larger body of water.
What is a Delta?
system of exchange that allowed Egypt to get the resources they needed.
What is trade or barter?
people believed that these people were close to the gods.
Who are the priests?
a system of writing that uses symbols or drawings to represent words or sounds.
What is Hieroglyphics?
the pharaoh that unified Lower and Upper Egypt and became the first pharaoh.
Who is Menes (or Narmer)?
valuable crop used to make paper
What is Papyrus?
the way people manage money and resources for the production of goods and services.
What is economy?
In the Egyptian social pyramid, this group has the most people in it.
What are the slaves?
officials who were in charge of writing
What are scribes?
a ruling family; control is passed between members
What is a dynasty?
dry, barren desert areas
What is the Red Land?
People had to pay taxes in the form of...
What is grain, or other goods and services?
body preserved through a special process.
What is a mummy?
tombs created for the pharaohs; temples for their gods.
What is a pyramid?
system of offices and officials that handle the business of the government.
What is a bureaucracy?
very rich, fertile land where Egyptians grew crops
What is the Black Land?
Egyptian economy centered around these two things.
What is farming and fishing?