pg-84 soc vocab

Question 1

Giza

Answer 1

a city in Egypt where the Great pyramid is located

Question 2

Deir el-Medina

Answer 2

a village built for workers at the valley of the kings in egypt

Question 3

menes

Answer 3

legendary ancient Egyptian king who is credited with uniting lower and upper egypt

Question 4

manetho

Answer 4

Egyptian priest and advisor who began keeping records of the ancient Egyptian kings

Question 5

khufu

Answer 5

Egyptian pharaoh for-whom the great pyramid at Giza was built

Question 6

hatshepsut

Answer 6

reigned c. 1498 .B.C.-1483 .B.C. Queen of ancient Egypt who proclaimed herself pharaoh and ruled during the New Kingdom

Question 7

akhenaten

Answer 7

Egyptian ruler who changed his name from Amenhotep IV and called for the worship of one god, Aton

Question 8

unify

Answer 8

to untie, combine or bring together

Question 9

pharaoh

Answer 9

in ancient Egypt a god king

Question 10

heiroglyphics

Answer 10

a form of writing based on pictures

Question 11

pyramid

Answer 11

a large stone building to serve as a house for the dead

Question 12

mummy

Answer 12

a preserved dead body

Question 13

economy

Answer 13

the way people use and manage resoures

Question 14

Rosetta Stone

Answer 14

a stone on which a passage was written in three languages