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Egypt T-3
Mr. B's Social studies class trimester 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Amun-Re | protector of the rich and the poor |
| Horus | the god of the sun |
| Osiris | god of the living and dead |
| Isis | one of the most powerful egyptian goddesses |
| ThutmoseIII | expanded the empire to include Syria and Nubia |
| Abu-simbel | an ancient city |
| Hatshepsut | achived economic ssucess especially trade |
| Menes | founder of the first egypt dynasty, unified upper and lower egypt |
| Nubia | a desert region and ancient kingdomin the nile river valley |
| El-Amarna | a city in ancient egypt |
| Deir el-Bahri | a city in ancient egypt |
| Sphinx | any number of huge stone statues built by the ancient egyptians having the body of a lion and the head of a man |
| Giza | an ancient city capital of upper egypt; site of the pyramids |
| Karnak | a city in ancient egypt |
| Cleopatra | ruler of egypt (51bc-30bc) married julius cesar |
| regent | someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule |
| luxor | |
| Thebes | a city in ancient egypt |
| papyrus | an early form of paper made from a reedlike plant |
| Tutankhamen | king of ancient egypt |
| Merone | a city in ancient egypt |
| Taharka | prince of Nubia |
| saqqura | a city in ancient egypt |
| astronomer | scientists who study the stars |
| New Kingdom | latest time period of the groups of egyptian dynasties |
| Ptolemy | King of ancient egypt |
| Louvre | |
| Napata | a city in ancient egypt |
| Middle Kingdom | middle time period of the groups of egyptian dynasties |
| Kerma | an ancient city in egypt |
| menkare | |
| Nile Delta | the source of the nile river |
| Herodotus | a greek historian who traveled the world and wrote about the wars |
| Khafre | |
| Shawabti | |
| Canopic Jar | a jar used to contain the organs of a mummy the top is carved to be the head of a god |
| Lower Nubia | an ancient region in northern africa |
| Tahrak | prince of nubia |
| sarcophagus | |
| aswan dam | in egypt |
| Akhenaten | introduced monotheism |
| upper egypt | the 30th northern parallel |
| Thoth | |
| stela | |
| motif | |
| Howard Carter | |
| Mastaba | |
| mummy | a dead body preserved in a lifelike condition |
| lower egypt | an area in egypt the north nile region |
| scarab beetle | |
| curse | |
| cartouche | |
| Ankh | |
| profile | |
| divine | |
| book of the dead | |
| metropolitein museum | |
| British Museum | |
| senusret | |
| Alabaster | |
| limestone | |
| Khufu (cheops) | a pharaoh |
| Lapis Luzuli | |
| afterlife | life after death |
| dynasty | a series of rulers from the same family |
| Anubis | |
| Pharaoh | a ruler king or queen |
| Cataract | a rock filled rapid |
| Delta | streams shaped like a triangle |
| pyramid | a huge building with four sloping outside walls shaped like a triangle |
| rosetta stone | |
| mummification | |
| silt | rich fertile soil |
| memphis | a city in ancient egypt |
| hieroglyphics | a kind of picture in writing in which some pictures stand for ideas and other things |
| Ramses the great | a pharaoh |
| Suez Canal | |
| Old Kingdom | the oldest time period of the groups of egyptian dynasties |
| faience | |
| embalming | |
| Alexandria | |
| excavation | a dig to try and discover fossils to tell more about the past |
| senet | |
| Archeology | the study of fossils |
| wedjat eye | |
| relief scupture | |
| amenotep | the pharaoh of egypt |
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