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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is a cataract | a large waterfall. |
| what is a delta | the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet ( Δ, δ ), transliterated as ‘d |
| What is a artisan | a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand. |
| What is a pharaoh | a ruler in ancient Egypt |
| What is a dynasty | a line of hereditary rulers of a country. |
| What is a bureaucracy | a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives. |
| What is a mummy | y of a human being or animal that has been ceremonially preserved by removal of the internal organs, treatment with natron and resin, and wrapping in bandages. |
| what is a hieroglyphic | writing consisting of hieroglyphs. |
| what are papyrus | a material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting on and also for making rope, sandals, and boats. |
| what is a pyramid | monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, especially one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt. |
| what is a sculpture | the art of making two- or three-dimensional representative or abstract forms, especially by carving stone or wood or by casting metal or plaster. |
| what is an anatomy | a study of the structure or internal workings of something. |
| what is a commerce | the activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale. |
| what is ivory | a hard creamy-white substance composing the main part of the tusks of an elephant, walrus, or narwhal, |
| what is interdependence | the dependence of two or more people or things on each other |
| what is the merotic script | two alphasyllabaric scripts developed to write the Meroitic language at the beginning of the Meroitic Period of the Kingdom of Kush. |
| what is ebony | heavy blackish or very dark brown timber from a mainly tropical tree. |