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Ancient Egypt vocabu
vocabulary for Ancient Egypt
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cataract | a rock filled rapid in a river |
| delta | the place at mouth of a river where it splits into several streams |
| silt | rich fertile soil deposited by the flooding of a river |
| pharaoh | the title of the kings of Ancient Egypt. |
| dynasty | a family of rulers |
| regent | someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule |
| afterlife | the next life in which the dead are believed to live again. |
| mummy | a dead body preserved in lifelike conditions |
| pyramid | a huge building with four sloping outside walls shaped like triangles. They were built as royal tombs |
| hieroglyphs | a kind of picture writing in which some pictures stand for ideas or things and others stand for sounds |