Vocab
A king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader.
What is a Pharaoh?
Body of water that flows through central Africa.
What is the Nile River?
Person at the top of ancient Egypt's social structure.
What is a Pharaoh?
How ancient Egyptians preserved dead bodies.
what is mummification?
The name of our first unit.
What is the Rise of Civilization or Early Humans?
How people are organized in a society based on their jobs and status.
What is a Social Structure?
City where the Great Pyramids can be found.
What is Giza?
The largest class in Egypt's social pyramid.
What are peasants or slaves?
Festival that celebrated the flooding of the Nile.
What is the Opet Festival?
Religious temple in Mesopotamia.
What is a Ziggurat?
Egyptian writing that involved using pictures to represent words.
What are Hieroglyphs or Hieroglyphics?
Formed a natural barrier that helped protect people living in the Nile River valley.
What is the desert?
Egypt's official writers and record keepers.
What are scribes?
Egyptian plant used to make paper.
What is Papyrus?
Creator of the Code of Law.
Who is Hammurabi?
Ancient Egyptian stone inscribed with several languages and scripts. Used for translating.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
The sea closest to Lower Egypt.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
One of the three main jobs of a government official in ancient Egypt.
What is Vizier (chief judge), General of Armies, or Chief Treasurer (tax collector)?
Ancient Egyptian tool used during surgery.
What are scissors?
The reason early humans stopped being nomadic.
What is agriculture?
A government ruled by a king or queen.
What is a Monarchy?
Natural resource used to make the pyramids.
What is Limestone or Sandstone or Granite?
Group of people above peasants/slaves on ancient Egypt's social structure.
Who are Artisans?
The primary Egyptian god.
Who is Horus?
The two rivers in Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates River?