Ancient Egypt 5.2

Vocabulary

100

An ancient ruler of Egypt

Pharaoh 

200

A great stone triangular tomb built for an Egyptian pharaoh

Pyramid

300

A government official

Bureaucrat

400

A government created and held by religious leaders

Theocracy

500

The process of treating a body to keep it from decaying or rotting

Embalming 

Origins

100

The word "pharaoh" originally meant

Great House

200

The first pharaoh responsible for uniting Upper and Lower Egypt as one kingdom

Narmer

300

These things were used in the transportation of stones to build the Great Pyramids

Sleds

400

The Egyptians created their own written system of numbers based on this number

10

500

This pharaoh was responsible for the construction of the largest of the Great Pyramids

Khufu

Social Pyramid

100

The top of the social pyramid which included this person's family

The pharaoh

200

This class of people are at the bottom, just above slaves

Unskilled workers

300

This group of people share their position with herders

Farmers

400

Upper class Egyptians often had houses along this body of water

The Nile River

500

Many of these people were captured during times of war and can be found at the bottom of the social pyramid

Slaves

Egypt's Religion

100

This is the place Egyptians believe to went to when a person has died

The afterlife

200

In order to stay in the afterlife, the Egyptians embalmed peoples bodies and wrapped them in linen, creating these:

Mummies

300

The ruler of Egypt, religious leader, and son of the sun god Re

Pharaoh

400

Through embalming and the study of the human body, the Egyptians wrote the first:

Medical books

500

This famous scene on papyrus shows a pharaoh in his journey through the afterlife where he is judged by weighing his heart against a feather

The Book of the Dead