Pharaohs
Legacies
Social Pyramid
Geography
Vocabulary
100
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?
100
the watering of dry land by means of canals or pipes.
What is Irrigation?
100
the group with the least amount of people on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the Pharaohs?
100
the river that runs through Egypt
What is the Nile?
100
the practice of one person owning another person.
What is slavery?
200
the female pharaoh that took Moses in when she found his basket in the river
Who is Hatshepsut?
200
a reed plant that grows along the Nile, which can be used to make paper.
What is Papyrus?
200
The group that has the most people in it on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the slaves?
200
the place where the pyramids were built.
What is Giza?
200
the title used by the rulers of ancient Egypt.
What is pharaoh?
300
the pharaoh that ordered the building of the Great Pyramid.
Who is Khufu?
300
a system of writing that was made up of about 800 picture-signs.
What is Hieroglyphics?
300
The group that is immediately above the slaves on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the farmers?
300
the southern area of ancient Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
300
the way people manage money and resources for the production of goods and services.
What is economy?
400
the pharaoh that unified Lower and Upper Egypt and became the first pharaoh.
Who is Menes?
400
the people who could read and write and often were priests as well.
Who are scribes?
400
the group that is immediately underneath the Pharaoh on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
Who is the vizier?
400
the direction the Nile River flows from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt.
What is North?
400
the act of preserving a body so that it will last for thousands of years.
What is mummification?
500
the pharaoh that ordered the Sphinx built
Who is Khafre?
500
is a form of specific transportation that the Egyptians are said to have invented that people use today (using the wind to travel upstream on the Nile).
What is a sailboat?
500
the four groups that are in the middle of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the soldiers, scribes, merchants, and artisans?
500
the place that Egypt conquered twice because of its gold.
What is Nubia?
500
jars used to hold the four organs that needed to be preserved
What are canopic jars?