Vocabulary
A period in Egyptian history that lasted for about 500 years.
What is The Old Kingdom
I am at the top of the pyramid.
What is a Pharaoh.
In the afterlife people were...
What is young and healthy.
The Old Kingdom was when...
What is when the first pyramids were built.
This pharaoh was one of the most famous; legend says he was cruel & harsh to his people.
Who is Pharaoh Khufu
A government that is ruled by religious authorities.
What is theocracy.
Farmers, slaves and servants are located here
What is the bottom of the pyramid
This left a person's body when they died
What is ka
I cover 13 acres & stand 481 feet tall...
What is the Great Pyramid of Khufu.
The case that holds a mummy is called...
a sarcophagus
What are nobles
I am underneath the Pharaoh.
What are nobles.
This was put into tombs when people died...
What are tools, weapons, jewelry and weapons.
I am a statue of a mythological creature...
What is the Sphinx
A person's __________ was judged when they died...
What is a soul
Life after death.
What is after-life.
I share my class with scribes.
What are craftspeople.
The dead still needed to...
eat, sleep & be entertained.
I worked on the pyramids...
What are slaves.
Specially treated body, wrapped in cloth
What is a mummy
Huge, stone tombs with four triangle-shaped sides that met in a point on the top.
What are pyramids.
Most Egyptians were located in this class.
What are farmers, servants, and slaves.
Food and beverages were...
What is expected to be brought by the dead's relatives.
This is how slaves/peasants were paid for building pyramids...
What is grain.
This social class was not mummified, rather thrown in shallow graves at the edge of the desert...
What are peasants