Trading
So much of this crop grew along the Nile River that Egyptians were able to use as much as they wanted while still having plenty to export to other civilizations.
What is papyrus?
What is the pharaoh was a god?
This is the definition of geography.
What is the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere?
Egyptians were able to more easily store and transport information by doing this.
What is inventing paper using papyrus?
This is the name of the logographic written language Egyptians used.
What is hieroglyphics?
Because the Nile provided for all of their needs, Ancient Egyptians could trade for their wants, such as these things.
What are precious metals (gold, silver) and gemstones (lapis lazuli)?
Ancient Egyptian farmers contributed to their society during their offseason in this way.
What is working as construction workers and helping with large building projects?
What is a desert climate?
Egyptians made trade more fair in this way.
What is creating a standardized system of weights so they could determine the value of goods?
This is the definition of geography.
What is the landforms, physical features, and atmospheric characteristics (climate) of a place?
Ancient Egyptians were able to conduct trade across the Mediterranean Sea by developing this technology.
What are boats?
Government officials were responsible for these three things.
What is running the banks, military, and ministry of agriculture, and collecting taxes, overseeing law enforcement, advising the pharaoh, and making sure everyone was doing their jobs.
The flooding of the Nile River helped Egyptian farmers in these two ways.
What is providing water and fertile soil?
Egyptians used hieroglyphics and written records to keep track of these 3 things.
What are politics (laws, government), history (important events, leadership), and economics (trades, transactions, receipts)?
This is the definition of economic.
What is relating to how a group of people earns/spends/uses wealth and resources?
This is the reason Egyptian trade networks first developed.
What is pharaohs sent gifts to leaders from other civilizations to impress them?
These people were members of this Egyptian lower class, and this is how they helped Egyptian society succeed.
What is farmers, servants, and enslaved people?
What is growing crops, maintaining irrigation systems, doing construction projects?
Because of their climate, ancient Egyptians had to develop their cities in this place.
What is along the Nile River?
This is the benefit of using cubits.
What is they were able to more safely build large construction projects that would last for longer times.
This is the definition of vizier.
What is a high ranking government official?
This is how debens worked.
What is putting the debens on one side of a balance scale and putting goods on the other side until they are equal weight?
These are the roles and responsibilities of the Egyptian middle classes.
What are soldiers, scribes, merchants and craftsmen?
What are expanding/defending borders, keeping written records, trading, and making goods?
The Nile provided Egyptians with access to trade by emptying into this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Other civilizations learning from and using Egyptian innovations is an example of this.
What is cultural diffusion?
This is the definition of standardize.
What is a system where everyone consistently uses the same guidelines?