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Egypt
History SOL review
Definition | Term |
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Flows North, unpredictable floods | Nile river |
Where the Nile drains into the Meditteranean sea | Delta |
A disease in the eye | Cataracts |
Connected AFrica and Asia | Sinai Peninsula |
A desert acting as a barrier to the West | Sahara |
The capital of ancient Egypt | Thebes |
A king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader. | Pharaoh |
Structures for Egyptian pharaohs tombs | Pyramids |
Religious text of spells for the deceased to find there way into the afterlife | Book of dead |
Kingdom in the Upper Nile, also known as Kush, Thriving trade | Nubia |
An ancient city on the Nile river, Capital of Nubia | Meroe |
A pharaoh of the early dynastic period, Unites upper and lower Egypt | Menes/Nemar |
Queen who defeats Hykosos | Ahmose |
Queen who proclaims herself pharaoh | Hatshepsut |
Egypt's 1st Emperor | Thutmose III |
A pharaoh who introduced Atenism, one god named Aton | Amenhotep IV or Akhenaton |
WIfe of Akhenaton | Queen Nefertiti |
An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | Hieroglyphs |
2613-2181 BCE - Age of the pyramids | Old Kingdom |
2030-1650 BC- Transitional period | Middle Kingdom |
1550-1070 BCE - Age of pharaohs | New Kingdom |
Ruler is political and religious leader | Theocracy |
a society of people who lived along the Nile River in the northeast corner of Africa | Egyptian civilization |