Lesson 9 Vocabulary

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

• Social Class

• afterlife

• noble

• status

• an existence after death

• noble

• afterlife

• death

• tomb

• a person who does farm work for wealthy land-owners

• noble

• king

• priest

• peasant

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

• noble

• status

• society

• empire

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

• social class

• status

• social pyramid

• noble

• of high birth or rank

• king

• priest

• noble

• peasant

hieroglyph

• pictures

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

• a type of emoji

• songs written in the ancient times