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Egypt Lalanne
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| July, August, September, October | The flood comes during which four months of the year? |
| Ramses II | Which pharaoh built Abu Simbel? |
| agriculture | What is the practice of growing crops and taming animals? |
| domestication | What is taming animals? |
| Fertile Crescent | What is the region that bends from Egypt through the Middle East to Mesopotamia, is shaped like a croissant, and has very fertile soil due to frequent flooding? |
| scribe | What was the name for someone who wrote things down for a living? |
| polytheism | What is the belief in many gods? |
| irrigation | What is the system of levees and canals used to divert water to crops called? |
| afterlife | a life that some people believe exists after death |
| delta | the end of a river where it goes into the sea and forms a triangular marshy region |
| Menes / Narmer | Which pharaoh united Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt? |
| Hatshepsut | Which pharaoh was the first female ruler? |
| hieroglyphics | What was the formal and religious system of writing called in ancient Egypt? |
| papyrus | Which plant grew by the river and was used to make many things such as paper for writing? |
| from the south to the north | Which way does the Nile river flow? |
| mummies | people who could afford it had their bodies preserved so that they could make the journey through the afterlife |
| pyramids | these were tombs where the pharaohs were buried |
| Upper Egypt | the region of Egypt to the south |
| Lower Egypt | the region of Egypt to the north, including the delta |
| King Tut | He was a boy when he ruled Egypt and died at an early age. His tomb contained many artifacts because it didn't get robbed as much as other tombs. |
| pharaoh | the king or leader of ancient Egypt, was also considered one of the gods |
| from north to the south | Which way does the wind blow most of the time in Egypt? |
| silt | sand, soil, mud, and other organic material that is carried down a river and settles on the flood plains after the flood goes away |
| flood plain | the plains or fields right next to the river that become flooded during the flood season |
| Giza | the city where the biggest pyramids are |
| cataract | a large waterfall |
| Kush or Nubia | a civilization to the south of Egypt that had a lot of gold |
| hieratic script | a cursive writing system used for everyday things in ancient Egypt |
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