ancient Egyptian

Egyptian social classes

Shape like a pyramid; Pharaoh at the top, then priest , then trades.

pyramids

Montains like tombs the size of several city blocks made for egyptia.

upper egypt

ON they map of ancient Egypt this would been located in the south due to elevation.

lower Egyp

ON the map of anciient Egypt this would been located in the north due to elevation.

Hatshepsut

She was the new kingdom Pharaoh that took power when her husband died.

Polytheism

Belief in many gods.

Kemet

Use by ancient egyptians to describe the datk.

dynasty

A series of rules from the same family.

Pharaoh

Title given to the king of egypt meaning “great house”.

Great Sphinx

Has the head of a man and a body of a lion.

Cartouche

An oval shape inside which Pharaohs name was inscribe in hieroglyphices..

Nile river

The river the ancient Egyptian settled around

Irrigation system

A way of supplying water to an area of land.

Natural barriers

Deserts ( Sahara, Eastern and western), Mountains, bodies of water.

Mummification

Embalmment and drying dead body and rapping it

Gift of the NIle

Egypt was call the because it would not have existed without the nile.

The Nile flooding

Was a predictable (annual) event that was Egyptian.

Hieroglypheistic

An ancient Egyptian witing system in which pictures.

Polytheistic

Beliving in many gods and godeddes

Sahara desert

Largedst desert in the world.

Shadoof

A bucket attached to a long pole use to lift water.

delta

A landfor where the rive splits off.

Papyrus

A reed plant that grew along nile rive.

Menes

An Egyptian king who unifled super and lower Egypt.