Chapter 4 Vocabulary
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| Nile River | World's longest river; more than 4,000 miles long. Ancient Egyptians depended on this river for water and food in the desert/farming in the valley. Turned Nile Valley into a productive agricultural region.
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| silt | A mixture of tiny bits of soil and rock carried and deposited by a river.
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| delta | The flat, fan-shaped land made of silt deposited at the mouth of a river.
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| Lower Egypt | The Nile Delta region in northern Egypt; lower or downstream part of the Nile.
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| Upper Egypt | The Nile cuts through stone cliffs and desert sands in southern Egypt.
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| irrigation | The watering of dry land by means of canals or pipes.
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| Menes | 3100 B.C. King of Upper Egypt who united Upper and Lower Egypt.
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| unification | The joining of separate parts, such as kingdoms, into one.
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| Memphis | Capital of Egypt's Old Kingdom, located on the Nile near present-day Cairo; 29 degrees North, 31 degrees East
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| economy | The way people manage money and resources for the production of goods and services.
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| hieroglyphics | The ancient Eqyptian system of writing that used symbols to stand for objects, ideas, or sounds.
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| scribes | A professional writer who kept records and copied letters and official documents.
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| papyrus | A kind of paper made from papyrus, a reed plant growing along the Nile, that the ancient Egyptians used for writing.
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| Khufu | 2650-2600 B.C.? Egyptian pharoah who built the Great Pyramid.
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| Thebes | An ancient city in Upper Egypt that became the capital of the New Kingdom; 26 degrees North, 33 degrees East
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| Nubia | An ancient kingdom south of Egypt.
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| Ahmose | 1546 B.C. New Kingom pharoah who drove the Hyksos out of the Nile Delta and reunited Egypt.
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| empire | A group of lands and people ruled by one government.
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| Kush | An ancient kingdom in northeastern Africa, conquered by Egypt. It later regained independence and flourished through trade (between circa 500 B.C. and A.D. 150).
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| Hatshepsut | 1520? -1482 B.C. One of the few women Egyptian pharoahs; organized a trade expedition to Egypt's southern neighbor; Punt.
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| expedition | A group of people who go on a trip for a specific reason.
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| Punt | An ancient Egyptian name for an area of Africa south of Egypt.
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| Valley of the Kings | West of Thebes in ancient Egypt, the burial place of 30 New Kingdom pharoahs; 26 degrees North, 33 degrees.
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| Tutankhamun | 1371? - 1352 B.C. Egyptian pharoah who ruled from about the ages of 7 to 17; his tomb remained nearly untouched until its discovery in 1922.
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