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loose, rich soil that is carried by
rivers / spread by floods
silt
Egyptian writing system
hieroglyphics
Specially trained writers
of hieroglyphics
scribes
A reed plant that grows along
the Nile; pressed to make paper
papyrus
A ruler of Egypt;
a god-king
Pharaoh
a stone with three languages
written on it; was used to
decipher hieroglyphics
Rosetta Stone
man-made canals and ditches to
bring water to crops in the fields
irrigation
a line of rulers from
the same family
dynasty
ancient Egyptian process for
preserving the bodies of the dead
mummification
a triangle shaped chart that shows
the rank of people in society
social pyramid
Old Kingdom tombs built
for the pharaohs
pyramids
First pyramid was built for ____.
He united upper and lower Egypt
and became the first Pharaoh.
Menes or
Zoser (Dozer)
Khufu or Cheops
The Great Pyramid of Giza was
built for this pharaoh
flat, fertile land at the mouth of
a river (fertile because of the
build up of silt)
delta
The Sun god of Egypt; The most
important god - gave life to the
earth and power to pharaoh
Ra
Anubis
-he was the god of embalming
-had the head of a jackal
-god of the Nile and the underworld
-father of Horus and husband to Isis
Osiris
-wife of Osiris
Isis
New Kingdom pharaoh whose
tomb was found by Howard Carter
a little over 100 years ago
Tutankhamun
King Tut
the first female pharaoh / she
was capable and powerful / she
wore a false beard to keep
with tradition
Hatshepsut
this time period was the
age of pyramid building
(Egypt)
the Old Kingdom
this time period was the
age of empire building
(Egypt)
New Kingdom
he is considered to have been
the greatest New Kingdom pharaoh;
he expanded the empire and built
more than any other pharaoh
Rameses II
(second)
traditional text containing incantations
and verses / usually buried in tombs
to help with passage to the afterlife
Egyptian Book of the Dead