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Vocab
Society
Physical Features
Egyptian Facts
Pharaohs
100
High waterfalls or rapids?
cataracts
100
How many social classes were there?
Six
100
What direction does the Nile River flow?
South to North or North
100
What were the houses made out of? (mud and what)
straw
100
Who was the pharaoh that started ruling when he was 9 years old and died when he was around 19 years old?
King Tut
200
Fabric woven from fibers of the flax plant?
linen
200
What kind of paper did the Egyptians use?
papyrus
200
Into what body of water does the Nile River Flow into?
Mediterranean Sea
200
Another name for trading that the Egyptians use?
Bartering
200
The Pharaoh who ruled for 66 years?
Ramses II
300
family or group that rules for several generations?
Dynasty
300
The bottom class in Egyptians Society?
Laborers and slaves
300
What continent is Egypt on?
Africa
300
Egyptians were the first to mine this?
Turquoise
300
The woman pharaoh who strengthen Egypt through trade?
Hatsheput
400
Triangle-shaped deposit of rich soil near a rivers mouth?
Delta
400
What did the Egyptians use to help spread water across their lands?
Shadoof
400
In what Valley did Pharaohs started to get buried because of tomb robbers?
Valley of the Kings
400
What was the Egyptians form of writing called?
Hieroglyphs
400
Who was King Tut's dad?
Ahkenation
500
Order in which members of a royal family inherit a throne?
Succession
500
What social class is third from the top? Remember to study the social class pyramid on page 88
scribes and government officials
500
What land forms kept invaders out of Egypt?
Deserts
500
How many Pyramids still stand today?
32
500
What archeologist discovered King Tut's Tomb? Additional 500 points if you can tell me the year?
Howard Carter, 1922