SS Egypt Flashcards
(41 cards)
How did the Nile’s floods help the ancient Egyptians?
Floods brought fertile soil
Where was papyrus found in ancient Egypt?
The Nile delta region
How was papyrus used?
To make a paper-like product
Why did the ancient Egyptians build pyramids?
To bury their pharaohs
Why did people bury valuable and useful objects in the tombs?
To help the dead in the afterlife
On what continent is Egypt?
Africa
What was found to decode hieroglyphs?
The Rosetta Stone
Instead of pyramids, many pharaohs were in tombs located where?
Valley of the Kings
What is polytheism
Egyptian practice of worshipping many different gods
What is a vizier
The pharaoh’s adviser, the person he relied upon the most
What group of people used chariots to invade Egypt?
Hyksos
What is a shaduf?
A simple machine like a lever used to help farmers irrigate their crops
How was a shaduf used?
Raised water from the Nile River into the canals
What are cataracts and how did they help ancient Egyptians?
Large rapids (waterfalls) in the south that helped prevent the Nile from being used to invade Egypt
What are step pyramids and who made the first of its kind in 2650 BC?
The first structures to be built entirely out of stone, made first by Djoser
How did we know that ancient Egypt was not at peace 5,000 years ago
Artifacts (weapons), hieroglyphs depicting battles, evidence of the double crown uniting upper and lower Egypt
What important roles did the pharaohs play in ancient Egypt
Government (army, pyramid building, making laws and keeping order); economy (taxes, controlling the share of silt); religion (controlling beliefs of the people)
What led to the collapse of the Old Kingdom
Anger over too many demands by the pharaohs; lack of real development on people’s lives
How did local governors help the pharaohs rule ancient Egypt
juries, judges, marriages, law and order, taxes, shared silt, reported back to the pharaoh
Social pyramid - Upper class
Pharaohs, Government Officials
Social pyramid - Middle class
Scribes, merchants, soldiers, artisans
Social pyramid - Lower class
Farmers, slaves
King at age 9, tomb with treasure found in 1922
Tutankhamun
ordered the building of Great Pyramid
Khufu
