Ancient Egypt Society / Orange

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  1. focusing on efficiently producing a limited number of goods or services specilization
  2. A process of preserving a persons body mumification
  3. When a person died, their spirit continued living and their spirit required a body in afterlife
  4. Inner organs removed from the body and placed in special urns called canopic jars
  5. A place where the body and the jars were placed inside a coffin called a sarcophagus
  6. The social class made up of only one individual; the pharaoh highest class
  7. The class which included nobles, priests and the vizier, or advisor. ruling class
  8. The class that provided goods and services and held specialized jobs such as artisans, merchants, soldiers, scribes, and doctors. middle class
  9. The class made up of peasants and enslaved people who were poor farmers.. lower class
  10. In 3100 BC who took control of both Upper and Lower Egypt King Narmer
  11. A government leader that controlled all aspects of government and religion and over time took control of all water resources and owned all land in Egypt pharaohs
  12. The pharaohs ruled through family groups known as dynasties
  13. The pharaohs established regional and local governments to________ in all part of the kingdom enforce their laws
  14. One responsibility of the pharaohs was to organize the construction of ____________ for farns irrigation systems
  15. The pyramids were built as tombs for Egyptian pharaohs
  16. God of the afterlife Osiris
  17. The first major monotheistic religion during the time of ancient Egypt Judism
  18. One of ancient Egypt's major trading partners was Nubia
  19. The pyramids were built as tombs for Egyptian pharaohs
  20. Egypt traded wheat and other food goods to Nubia in exchange for gold
  21. Nubia controlled the _______farther inland Nile River
  22. Nubia also controlled Egypt's access to trade with the interior of Africa
  23. Egypt used ___________ to overpower Nubia during the New Kingdom military power
  24. Egypt required Nubia to provide ____________ as tribute to the pharaoh gold, cattle, and other goods
  25. The spread of people, ideas, technology and products from one culture to another cultural diffusion
  26. The Egyptians developed a system of writing using picture like symbols hieroglyphics
  27. Ancient Egypt's record keepers were called __________ and they recorded building measurements, crop totals, and population data scribe
  28. A paper like material created from a reed plant and was the world's first form of parchment used for writing. papyrus
  29. A feat of Egyptian architecture that is 200 feet long and 60 feet wide Sphinx at Giza
  30. Massive stone monuments with a rectangular base and triangular sides that meet in a point at the top pyramid

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