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Section 4 vocab
Vocab for social studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Amon-Re | Great lord of the gods |
| Osiris | The god |
| Isis | The goddess |
| Akhenaton | Means "he who serves Aton" |
| Mummification | The preservation of dead bodies by embalming and wrapping them in cloth |
| Hieroglyphics | System of writing in which pictures called hieroglyphs represent objects, concepts,or sounds |
| Papyrus | Plant used to make a paper-like writing material in ancient Egypt |
| Decipher | To figure out the meaning of |
| Rosetta Stone | Stone monument that includes the same passage carved in hieroglyphics,demotic script,and that was used to decipher the meanings of many hieroglyphs |