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What were Ancient Egyptians preoccupied by? Religion and afterlife.
Who were below the Pharaohs in Egyptian society? Priest.
Who were the Skilled Embalmers? People who prepared the body by removing vital organs, then drying and wrapping the body in strips of linen.
What were the most famous burial tombs of Ancient Egypt? The Great pyramids at Giza and Cairo.
What were the oldest and only remaining examples of the Seven Wonders? The Pyramids.
What preserved records of Ancient Egyptian culture for thousands of years? Hieroglyphics.
What is papyrus? Papyrus is what Egyptians wrote on and it's made from a reed plant that was pressed and dried to make a paper-like materials.
What is Rosetta Stone? Translated hieroglyphics to Greek, Also it has come to mean the key to understanding a difficult problem.
What are some of Africa's major geographic features? The Sahara Desert, the Kalahari Desert, Great Rift Valley, the Nile river, Africa's highest mountain, Mt. Kilimanjaro, and tropical rain forests centered on the Congo River basin in south central Africa.
What is the Savanna? A large land area in central and southeast Africa with grasslands and scattered trees.
What is the Nile? The longest river in the world. Flows north more than 4,000 miles to the Mediterranean Sea where it forms a wide triangle-shaped delta in northern Egypt.
What is the Sahara Desert? About the size of the United States, which make it the largest dry desert in the world. It extends from the Atlantic Ocean on the west to the Red Sea on the east. Separates North Africa from sub-Saharan Africa.
What does North Africa border? The Mediterranean Sea and includes the Saharan and lands the lying to the north of the desert including the Atlas Mountains and the modern countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt.
What is the Sub-Saharan Africa? The land that lies south of the desert, sometimes been called "black Africa".
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