Social Pyramid
A group in a society that is ranked by factors such as wealth, property, and rights.
What is social class?
These people spent most of their lives working. During harvest season they had to work from dawn to dusk.
Who are peasants or farmers?
A person who does farm work for wealthy landowners.
The principal can be compared to this group of ancient Egyptian society.
Who is the pharaoh?
Mountains, rivers, valleys, deserts, climate and soil and all parts of ______________geography.
What is physical geography?
This social class lived in luxury and their job was to assist the pharaoh.
Who are government officials?
This group worked side by side in workshops. They worked for ten days at a time before taking a day off!
Who are artisans?
Existence after death.
What is the afterlife?
The assistant principal can be compared to this group of ancient Egypt.
Who are government officials?
The longest river in the world, flowing through eastern Africa to a delta in northeastern Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
This person's job was to take care of the temples that were scattered throughout Egypt.
Who are temple priests?
This group had to copy signs over and over, practicing writing on wood and flakes of stone.
A system of writing developed around 3000 B.C.E.
What are hieroglyphics?
The peasants have the least control and power in Egyptian society like this group in our school.
Who are students?
The plants of a place or region.
What is vegetation?
Schooling started around age five for these members of ancient Egypt society. They were well paid to keep records like records of grain and food supply, government census, and taxes.
Who are scribes?
These people could not eat fish or food associated with lower classes. They also had to cleanse in the holy pools 3 or 4 times a day.
Who are priests?
A method to preserve bodies from decay. Priests oversaw this sacred ritual.
What is embalming?
The pharaoh and principal are both at the top of the pyramid because they hold the most __________________.
What is power?
Ancient civilizations often settled by ____________.
What is water?
Workers in this class included carpenters, jewelers, leatherworkers, metalworkers, painters, potters, and sculptors.
Who are artisans?
These people were believed to be gods.
Who were Pharaohs?
Each year when the Nile river flooded its banks all of Egypt celebrated this festival.
What is the Opet Festival?
Like a scribe, this group in our school falls in the middle of the pyramid.
Who are teachers?
The shape and elevation of surface features, such as mountains or deserts, of a place or region.
What is topography?