Egyptian Social Structure
They are at the top of the Egyptian social structure. They were thought of as a god among people.
What is a Pharaoh?
They were the writing system of Ancient Egyptians. They were symbols that represented letters.
What are hieroglyphics?
It is the longest river in the world. It runs from South to North through Egypt.
What is the Nile?
They are the sun god.
Who is Ra?
Indigenous groups collected this as their food.
They were the people in charge of writing, reading, and recording events.
Who were scribes?
They were built to house the bodies of the Pharaohs as a tomb.
Why were the pyramids built? (What are the pyramids?)
Sometimes called the Kemet, it is the fertile land around the Nile were 90% of people lived.
What is the black land?
She was the longest reigning female Pharaoh of Egypt
Who is Hatshepsut?
They were the people who passed down all the knowledge and lore of their countries/nations.
Who are the Elders in Indigenous societies?
They were often people who were captured from wars and were at the bottom of the pyramid.
Who were slaves?
The desert - made up of sand dunes, rocky plateaus, and low hills - beyond the black land of the Nile.
What is the red land?
They were gods and the god Horus was their son.
Who are Orisis and Isis?
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How many Indigenous languages are still spoken today?
They spent their time performing rituals and ceremonies to the God of their temple.
To preserve the body so the person could make the journey to the afterlife.
Why did the ancient Egyptians create mummies?
A type of reed that grew in the Nile that was made into paper for Ancient Egyptians.
What is papyrus?
The last Pharaoh of Egypt.
Who was Cleopatra?
It was a time of creation, The Rainbow Serpent and How the Birds got their Colours are stories from this time.
What is the dreaming/dreamtime?
They were responsible for making local laws and keeping order in their region.
What did the Nobles do?
The jars whose lids look like the gods that guard them that ancient Egyptians put organs in?
What are canopic jars?
They are the three tributaries that flow into the Nile?
The Blue Nile, the White Nile and the Atbara River
It was polytheistic (with multiple gods and goddesses)
What was the Ancient Egyptian belief system?
It is inner, deep listening and quiet, still awareness. It is similar to contemplation or how some people connect with God and religion.