the watering of dry land by means of canals or pipes.
What is Irrigation?
the group with the least amount of people on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the Pharaohs?
A section of the Nile River where the water becomes shallow and fast-flowing due to rocky rapids.
What is cataracts?
What Pharaoh dressed as a man even wearing a false beard
Who is Hatshepsut?
What is considered to be the lower class on the social pyramid for Ancient Egypt
What are farmers and unskilled workers?
What is shadoof?
Who ruled for over 60 years
Who is Ramses II?
What is considered to be the Upper class on the social pyramid for Ancient Egypt. (There are four groups of people)
What are Nobles, Priests, scribes, and government officials?
What is the material burned for it’s pleasant smell.
What is incense?
This Pharaoh tried to erase their stepmother’s name from history
Who is Thutmose III?
The people who went to school to learn to read and write in ancient Egypt, starting at about the age of ten.
Who are boys/scribes?
What is considered to be the middle class on the social pyramid for Ancient Egypt. (There are three groups of people)
What are artisans, shopkeepers, and traders?
A process of treating a body to prevent it from decaying
What is embalming?
The sun god Aten was worshipped during whose reign
Who is Akhenaten?
Who were the earliest rulers in Ancient Egypt before the Pharoah
What are village chiefs?
The Nile River begins as two separate rivers, what are the names of the rivers?
What is Blue Nile and the White Nile?
Egyptians studied this material for its prayers and magical spells to prepare for the afterlife.
What is the Book of the Dead?