Pharaohs
Legacies
Social Pyramid
Geography
Vocabulary
100
a ruling family where power passes from one generation to the next.
What is a dynasty?
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
a specially preserved body
What is a mummy?
200
His fully intact tomb remained untouched until 1922 when it was discovered.
Who is Tutankhamun?
200
a reed plant that grows along the Nile, which can be used to make paper.
What is Papyrus?
200
a system to organize society pictured below:
What is the social hierarchy?
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 longest river in the world
What is the Nile?
300
the pharaoh that ordered the building of the Great Pyramid.
Who is Khufu?
300
pictured here:
What is Hieroglyphics?
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
ancient burial site for the Pharaohs of Egypt.
What is The Valley of the Kings?
400
the pharaoh that unified Lower and Upper Egypt and became the first pharaoh.
Who is Menes?
400
the tallest structure on earth for over 3,000 years.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
400
the group that is immediately underneath the Pharaoh on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the government officials and priests?
400
the direction of the flow of Nile River.
What is North?
400
the fertile northern region of Egypt.
What is Lower Egypt?
500
a pharaoh who organized a two-year trading expedition to Punt.
Who is Hatshepsut?
500
is a form of specific transportation that the Egyptians are said to have invented that people use today.
What is a sailboat?
500
the four groups that are in the middle of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the soldiers, scribes, merchants, and artisans?
500
rapids or disruptions within a river.
What are cataracts?
500
Egyptian god of the dead and guide of the underworld.
Who is Osiris?