Social Classes
This class included nobles, priests, and the Pharaoh's vizier (chief advisor).
Ruling class
Egyptian writing was called...
Hieroglyphics
This ruler was the first female Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
Queen Hatshepsut
Egyptians went through this process when someone died.
Mummification
Egyptians were ____________, meaning they believed in many gods.
Polytheists
This class provided goods and services. It included merchants, artisans, soldiers, scribes, and doctors.
Middle class
Egyptians used this to build the pyramids!
Geometry
This ruler came to power at the age of 9!
King Tutankhamun
Egyptians placed the people who had passed away in a coffin they called a...
Sarcophagus
This is what Ancient Egyptians wrote on.
Papyrus
This class was made up of slaves and peasants.
Lower class
Using this, the Egyptians developed a 365-day calendar.
Astronomy
This ruler had the second-longest reign as pharaoh.
Ramses the Great
The Great Pyramids of Giza were tombs built for...
Kings of the Old Kingdom
This was the main trading partner of the Ancient Egyptians.
Nubia (or Kush)
The highest social class in Ancient Egypt.
Pharaoh
The Great Pyramids and the Sphinx at Giza are examples of Ancient Egyptian...
Architecture
This ruler focused on trading with other civilizations (like Kush/Nubia) and building relationships with them.
Queen Hatshepsut
Ancient Egyptians believed a person's _________ kept living on in the afterlife.
Spirit
This king died when he was only 19 years old.
King Tut
Besides the pharaoh, there were how many other social classes in Ancient Egypt?
Three
Egyptians even advanced in this field, performing surgeries and mummification.
Medicine
This ruler helped Ancient Egypt gain more land through military conquest.
Ramses the Great
King Tut's tomb was discovered in 1922. It is important because...
There were funerary objects still there in his tomb
This man discovered King Tut's tomb.
Howard Carter