Vocabulary
Line of rulers from one family
Dynasty
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?
The group with the least amount of people of the ancient Egyptian social pyeamid
What are Pharaohs?
Nubia comes from the Egyptian word for what?
Gold
canals that were dug along the nile river so that crops could receive water. this process is called?
Irrigation
Process of trating a body from decaying
Embalming
a female Pharaoh who organized a two year trading expedition to Punt
Who is Hatshepsut?
the group on the egyptian social pyramid with the most people
Peasants
List 2 important natural recources from Kush
What is gold, timber, ivory, leather, ebony, iron?
a reed plant that grows along the nile wich can be used to make paper
What is Papyrus
a bucket attatched to a long pole used to transfer water from a river to a storage bin
Shadoof
The pharaoh that ordered the building of the pyramid of Giza
Who is Khufu
The group inmediately above the peasants on the social pyramid
What are artisans?
What is the capital of Kush
Meroe
a system of writing that was made up of about 800 picture signs/
What is Heiroglyphics?
area formned by soil deposits that build up as the river slows down
Delta
the pharaoh that unified lower and upper egypt and became the first pharaoh
Who is Menes?
the group immediatley underneath the Pharaoh on the social pyramid
What is Government Official
what is a Kandake?
a female Kushite leader
these were built as the burrial places for pharaohs
Pyramids
Wild rapids
Cataracts
The pharaoh who drove the Hyksos out og the Nile Delta and got the land back for Egypt
Who is Ahmose?
list all the social classes in order
Pharaohs
Government Officials
Preists
Scribes
Artisans
Peasants
What factor allowed kush to conquer egypt?
Egypt became weak and unstable due to political chaos
Who could only go to school to become a scribe?
Boys