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Ancient Egypt vocabu
vocabulary for Ancient Egypt
Term | Definition |
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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 |