Pharaohs
Legacies
Social Pyramid
Geography
Vocabulary
Politics/Economy/Religion
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 coffin the pharaohs mummy was laid in
What is a sarcophagus?
100
The organ left in the body when mummifying a body
What is the heart?
200
a pharaoh who organized a two-year trading expedition to Punt.
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 slaves?
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?
200
A sequence of rulers from the same family. This is how Egypt was ruled for 3,000 years.
What is a dynasty?
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 slaves on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the farmers?
300
the southern area of ancient Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
300
the way people manage money and resources for the production of goods and services.
What is economy?
300
The Egyptian style of government in which government and religion are combined. The Pharaoh was thought to be divine.
What is theocracy?
400
the pharaoh that unified Lower and Upper Egypt and became the first pharaoh.
Who is Menes?
400
the purpose of the Sphinx
What is to protect the tombs of the pharaohs?
400
The adviser to the pharaoh near the top of the social pyramid
What is the vizier?
400
the direction the Nile River flows from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt.
What is North?
400
Items/goods sent out to other regions.
What are exports?
400
This happened to the mummy's soul in the afterlife if the Egyptian embalmer did not do a good job
What is it would not recognize and reunite with its body?
500
the symbolization of the double crown worn by pharaohs
What is the unification of Lower and Upper Egypt?
500
the people who went to school in ancient Egypt, starting at about the age of ten.
Who are boys?
500
group of people on the social pyramid who were chosen by the pharaoh to govern the nomes (states) of Egypt
What are the nobles?
500
the place that Egypt conquered twice because of its gold.
What is Nubia?
500
the joining of separate parts into one.
What is unification?
500
the system of trading goods for goods and who the Egyptians trade with
bartering and civilizations along the Red and Mediterranean Seas
600
the pharaoh who drove the Hyksos out of the Nile Delta and got the land back for Egypt.
Who is Ahmose?
600
is a form of specific transportation that the Egyptians are said to have invented that people use today.
What is a sailboat?
600
A way a boy from a lower class could rise to a higher social class
What is attend scribe school?
600
two examples of cultural diffusion in Nubia as a result of interacting through trade with Egypt
What are pyramid architecture and calling their leaders pharaoh?
600
a group of people who go on a trip for a set reason.
What is an expedition?
600
Who is Anubis, the Egyptian god of the dead.