Egypt Vocabulary

process used to keep dead bodies from decaying

• embalming

• vizier

• scribe

• culture

series of rulers from same family

• dynasty

• vizier

• peasant

• artisan

Egyptian writing

• heiroglyphics

• cuneiform

• scribe

• artisan

the way a civilization is organized

• social structure

• society

• vizier

• pharaoh

a person that does farm work for rich landowners

• peasant

• artisan

• scribe

• sarcophagus

skilled workers

• artisan

• dynasty

• pharoah

• culture

high ranking government official

• vizier

• embalm

• artisan

• famine

Egyptian ruler

• pharah

• priest-king

• famine

• delta

way of life

• culture

• social structure

• artisan

• hieroglyphics

severe shortage of food

• famine

• delta

• artisan

• dynasty