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amulet
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Rosetta Stone
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Amon-Ra
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Chief god
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cataract
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a large waterfall
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hierglyphics
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Egyption writing system
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Afterlife
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life after death
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Narmer
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first phoaroah of egypt
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Hieroglyphics
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Egypt's primary writing script.
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Dynasty
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a family of rulers
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papyrus
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Used to create paper
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pharaoh
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a ruler of ancient gods
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Nubia later became known as...
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Kush
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khufu
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ruled in the 2500s bc
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Pyramids
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Necropolises (cemeteries) where the dead could live eternally.
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Kush flourishes
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3rd stage of Kush
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Who was Ra?
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The sun god.
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Thutmose III
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attacked Nubia and Mesopotamia. Slavery of conquered peoples became common. The empire grew rich from tribute and trade.
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What did Ra create?
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life and order
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Menes
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Egypt's first pharaoh who unified Upper and Lower Egypt
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Nobles
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people from rich and powerful families
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sarcophagus
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stone coffin in which ancient Egyptians placed the mummified body.
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valley of the Kings
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pharaoh burial place
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step pyramid
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earliest type of ancient Egyptian building used as a tomb
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historian
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detectives who face the challenge of finding clues from the past. from the clues, they discover the history of people.
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mummy
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a dead body preserved in lifelike condition
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Queen Hatshepsut
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A queen that increased Egyptian trade
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red crown- deshret
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the crown of lower egypt
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trade routes
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Waterways, paths, and trails that traders used to move goods for exchange from one place to another.
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Meaning of pharaoh
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A god in human-like form
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delta
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a triangular-shaped area at the mouth of some rivers
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Cartouche
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A carved inscription of a pharaoh's name. The inscription is contained in an oval symbolizing an official scroll
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Nile River
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major world river running south-north in Eastern Africa
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Petesuchos
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The egypian crocodile god. Most sacred animal.
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obelisk
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a tall printed four-sided pillar in Ancient Egypt
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Narmer Palette
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a tablet illustrating the unification of Egypt
>found in Hierakonpolis, suggesting Hierakonpolis capital from where Namer/Menes unified Egypt
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An oval shaped symbol found in hierogliphics with the pharaoh's name inside
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cartouche
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Akhenaten
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early ruler of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with sun worship (died in 1358 BC)
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tribute
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What is wealth sent from one country or ruler to another as a sign that the other is superior?
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wealth
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the quality of profuse abundance or a large quantity
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Ra
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Sun god who ruled over the other Egyptian gods
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Thebes
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The capital of Upper Egypt after the people there revolted in 2,000BC
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regent
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someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule
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abu simbel
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two massive temples built by rameses II into two mountain sides
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First Intermediate Period
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significant turbulence caused by a succession of low Niles, which led to Collapse of the Old Kingdom due to the lack of a strong centralised government.
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What was papyrus?
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Paper-like sheets for writing; made from reeds that grew along the Nile
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Gender in Art
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women- pale (because usually doing household chores, inside, away from sun)
men- darker (assumed to be outside the household)
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Book of the Dead
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Hymns, prayers, and magical spells from the tomb to protect the soul to the afterlife.
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empire
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a group of lands and people ruled by one government
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Old Kingdom
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A period in Egypt that lasted for about 500 years.
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People of the sea
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Tribes of Palestine, nomads from Libian desert, and people from the Meditterranean Sea.
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Mummy/ Mummification
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- mummify to go to the afterlife
- take out the organs and out them into glasses
- wrap the body- dry him out
- put in numerous boxes
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Pepi II
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6th Dynasty, ruled over Egypt for 94 years. No clear pharaoh after his reign which led to a vacuum of power and contributed to the collapse of the Old Kingdom.
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book of dead
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contains major ideas and beliefs found in the ancient egyptian religion
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In the early stages of Egyptian religion only the Pharaoh could do what?
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enter into the aferlife
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Vegetables, bread, beer and dried fish. No one in ancient egypt ever went hungry.
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What did ordinary people eat?
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Who were below the pharaoh on the social scale?
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Preists and Nobles
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Toward the end of the Old Kingdom the government becace what?
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Weak and divided
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Who took over ancient Egypt?
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Ambitious nobles tried to take over Ancient egypt and by 2200 B.C. the Old Kingdom had fallen to the nobles and egypt had no central ruler.
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A resourceful and creative ancient civilization
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What are Pyramids a reminder of today?
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When and where was Cleopatra born?
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Cleopatra was born in 69 B.C. in Alexandria
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One of the largest man made structures in the world today.
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What is The Great Pyramid at Giza?
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