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 fewest number of people on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the Pharaohs?
100
a mixture of tiny bits of rock and soil deposited by a river that would have been found in Lower Egypt.
What is silt?
100
The picture-writing carved in stone and written on papyrus
What are hieroglyphs?
200
a pharaoh who is known for expanding the Empire of Egypt through trade
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.
Who are the slaves?
200
fertile flat land made of silt left behind as the river drains into a larger body of water.
What is a Delta?
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 (Cheops)?
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.
Who are the farmers?
300
the southern area of ancient Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
300
The last significant pharaoh of the New Kingdom
Who is Ramesses II?
400
the pharaoh that unified Lower and Upper Egypt and became the first pharaoh.
Who is Menes?
400
the people who went to school in ancient Egypt, starting at about the age of ten.
Who are boys?
400
the group that is immediately underneath the Pharaoh on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid, who ran the government and presided over elaborate rituals
Who are noblemen and priests?
400
the direction the Nile River flows from Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt.
What is North?
400
The period in which the Hyksos ruled Egypt
What is the Second Intermediary Period?
500
Egypt learned to use horse-driven chariots from these invaders from the East
Who at the Hyksos?
500
is a form of specific transportation that the Egyptians are said to have invented that people use today.
What is a sailboat?
500
the groups beneath the upper class of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the merchants and artisans?
500
A tributary state of Egypt that later invaded and conquered Egypt
What is Nubia?
500
The god of resurrection
Who is Osiris?