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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cataract | a large or high waterfall |
| delta | the place at the mouth of a river where it splits into several streams to form an area shaped like a triangle |
| silt | rich, fertile soil deposited by the flooding of a river |
| pharaoh | the title of the kings of ancient egypt |
| dynasty | a series of rulers from the same family |
| regent | someone who rules for a child until that child is old enough to rule also called a vizier |
| afterlife | the next life, in which the dead are beleived to live again |
| mummy | a dead body preserved in lifelike condition |
| pyramid | a huge building with four sloping outside walls shaped like triangles |
| hieroglyphics | a kind of picture writing in which some pictures stand for ideas and others stand for sounds |
| papyrus | an early form of paper made from a reedlike plant found in the marshy areas of the nile delta |
| astronomer | in ancient egypt they studied the stars to predict nile floods |
| akhenaten | King of Egypt (1375?-1358?) who rejected the old gods and initiated a monotheistic worship of the sun-god Aton. |
| alabaster | A dense translucent, white or tinted fine-grained gypsum used for statues and ornamental objects |
| alexandria | Arabic, Al-Iskandarîyah. a seaport in N Egypt, in the Nile delta: founded in 332 b.c. by Alexander the Great; ancient center of learning. 2,201,000 |
| amulet | small object worn to ward off evil |
| amun-re | egyptian sun god |
| archaeology | the study of bones, tools, structures, and other objects to learn about past peoples and cultures |
| aswan | nile location of one of the worlds largest dams |
| canopic jars | containers which held the heart and other organs found in egyptian tombs |
| deir-el-bahri | funeral temple comlex built by hatshepsut |
| el amarna | city built by akhenaten to worrship the aten |
| Giza | an ancient city capital of upper egypt; site of the great pyramids and the sphinxd |
| hatshepsut | step-mother of thutmose iii; ruled egypt as regent and then as pharaoh; acheived econmic success especialy in trade died c. 1482 BC |
| herodotus | greek author who traveled throughout the known world; wrote about the wars between greece and persia in the History, the first major historical work of ancient times |
| horus | son of osiris and isis portrayed with a hawk-shaped head and human body |
| howard carter | british archaeologist who found king tut's tomb |
| isis | godess of fertility |
| karnak | location of the jubilee temple near ruins of ancient thebes |
| kerma | a market town in present day sudan; an ancient nubian city |
| khufu (cheops) | aka cheops, built the great pyramid |
| lapis lazuli | deep blue mineral used for jewlry and ornaments |
| limestone | the great pyramid was made of large blocks of this sedimentary rock |
| louvre | french museum |
| lower egypt | an area in ancient egypt, in the northern nile river region |
| lower nubia | an ancient region in noorthern africa extending from the nile valley in egypt to present day sudan, specifically, between the first and second nile cataracts |
| mastaba | egyptian tomb made of mud brick, flat roof, and sloping sides |
| memphis | 1st capital of ancient egypt |
| menes | lived c. 2925 bc; founder of the first egyptian dynasty; unified upper and lower egypt; founded the capital of memphis |
| meroe | a city of ancient nubia in present day sudan |
| middle kingdom | the middle time period of the groups of egyptian dynasties |
| napata | one of the three most powerful nubian kingdoms; located between the third and fourth cataracts of the nile river in upper nubia |
| new kingdom | the egyptian period in history that the pharaohs tutankhamen, ramses the great, hatshepsut, and thutmose III rule |
| Nubia | because of its location between egypt and central africa, it was a center for trade |
| Old Kingdom | the earliest time period of the groups of egyptian dynasies |
| profile | the outline or contour of the human face, esp. the face viewed from one side. |
| Ptolemy | any of the kings of the Macedonian dynasty that ruled Egypt 323–30 b.c. |
| Rosetta Stone | a stone slab, found in 1799 by napoleon's troops near Rosetta, bearing parallel inscriptions in Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphic, and demotic characters, making possible the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. |
| Saqqara | 1st stone pyramid built by pharaoh djoser |
| Sarcophagus | a stone coffin that pharaohs were buried in. |
| scarab beetle | an insect representing rebirth in egyptian art and jewelry |
| Shawabti | a figurine placed in an ancient Egyptian tomb to serve as a slave for the soul or as a substitute for the soul in performing forced labor. |
| Sphinx | a figure of an imaginary creature having the head of a man or an animal and the body of a lion |
| Suez Canal | a canal in NE Egypt, cutting across the Isthmus of Suez and connecting the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. 107 mi. (172 km) long. |
| Thebes | an ancient city in Upper Egypt, on the Nile, whose ruins are located in the modern towns of Karnak and Luxor: a former capital of Egypt. |
| Thoth | the god of wisdom, learning, and magic represented as a man with the head either of an ibis or of a baboon |
| Thutmose III | fl. c1475 b.c., Egyptian ruler: conqueror of the Middle East. |
| Tutankhamen | 14th century b.c., a king of Egypt of the 18th dynasty. |
| faience | glazed earthenware or pottery, esp. a fine variety with highly colored designs. |
| abu simbel | temple featuring 4 giant statues of ramses the great |
| cartouche | oval figure with hieroglyphic symbols that represent the name of an important person |
| ankh | egyptian symbol for eternal life |
| book of the dead | contains prayers, illustrations about behavior of the souls of the dead |
| cairo | capital city of modern egypt |
| dr. zahi hawass | famous egyptian archaeologist; head of supreme council of antiquities |
| Anubis | Egyptian god of mummification and the afterlife |
| workers and farmers | most people belonged to this social class in ancient egypt |
| land of the dead | according to the egyptians religious belief, was located on the western side of the nile |
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