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WH 2.2
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| pyramid | resting place for kings of the Old Kingdom |
| Narmer | King who wore the crown of both Lower and Upper Egypt. Scholars think it represents the unifiction of Egypt in 3000BC |
| delta | broad, marshy, triangular area of land formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of a river |
| pharaohs | Egyptian god-kings, thought to be the most powerful in the heavens |
| mummification | embalming and drying a corpse to prevent it from decaying |
| papyrus | reed plant that the Egyptians formed into a paper-like sheet |
| hieroglyphics | means "sacred carving". used pictures to represent ideas |
| theocracy | government rule based on religion |