Ss Lesson 9 Vocab/study Guide

Question 1

An existence after death

Answer 1

Afterlife

Question 2

A symbol used in hieroglyphics, a system of writing developed around 3000 B.C.E

Answer 2

Hieroglyph

Question 3

Of high birth or rank

Answer 3

Noble

Question 4

To take up or fill

Answer 4

Occupied

Question 5

A person who does farm work

Answer 5

Peasant

Question 6

Stiff; unable to bend

Answer 6

Rigid

Question 7

A position based on socially expected behavior

Answer 7

Role

Question 8

A group in society that is ranked by factors such as wealth, property, and rights

Answer 8

Social class

Question 9

A pyramid outline showing the positions of social classes according to their status in society

Answer 9

Social pyramid

Question 10

The position, or standing, of an individual compared to others in the same society

Answer 10

Status

Question 11

The highest ruling level

Answer 11

Supreme

Question 12

Why are the social classes of ancient Egypt decri ed by the shape of a pyramid rather than a cube

Answer 12

Showed that most people were in the bottom class and few people at top

Question 13

Who built the giant te piles of the pharaohs

Answer 13

Peasants during the flood season

Question 14

What activities were men only allowed to do

Answer 14

Become scribes

Question 15

How did most government officials get their jobs?

Answer 15

Inherited positions from family members

Question 16

Describe the role of women in religion

Answer 16

Become priestesses

Question 17

Name the most important duty of the vizier

Answer 17

Chief judge

Question 18

What was found in the sanctuary of a temple?

Answer 18

A statue of a god

Question 19

Why did Egyptians bury some bread and beer with their dead

Answer 19

They believed in the afterlife

Question 20

What was one of the few ways that a boy from a peasant family could rise to a higher social class?

Answer 20

Becoming a scribe

Question 21

Why did it take many years to become a scribe?

Answer 21

They had to learn over 700 hieroglyphs

Question 22

Skilled scribes wrote on papyrus, which was made from

Answer 22

The papyrus plant

Question 23

Name the social classes from highest to lowest

Answer 23

Pharaoh, governement officials, priests, scribes, artisans, peasants

Question 24

How does the work of ancient Egyptian artisans help us learn today about life in ancient Egypt

Answer 24

Carved t painted scenes of ancient Egyptian daily life

Question 25

In the life of a peasant which season came next after the flooding season.

Answer 25

Planting season

Question 26

Most peasants lived in

Answer 26

Mud brick houses

Question 27

In what form did many farmers pay their taxes

Answer 27

Crops