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Egypt
History SOL review
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| Flows North, unpredictable floods | Nile river |
| Where the Nile drains into the Meditteranean sea | Delta |
| A disease in the eye | Cataracts |
| Connected AFrica and Asia | Sinai Peninsula |
| A desert acting as a barrier to the West | Sahara |
| The capital of ancient Egypt | Thebes |
| A king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader. | Pharaoh |
| Structures for Egyptian pharaohs tombs | Pyramids |
| Religious text of spells for the deceased to find there way into the afterlife | Book of dead |
| Kingdom in the Upper Nile, also known as Kush, Thriving trade | Nubia |
| An ancient city on the Nile river, Capital of Nubia | Meroe |
| A pharaoh of the early dynastic period, Unites upper and lower Egypt | Menes/Nemar |
| Queen who defeats Hykosos | Ahmose |
| Queen who proclaims herself pharaoh | Hatshepsut |
| Egypt's 1st Emperor | Thutmose III |
| A pharaoh who introduced Atenism, one god named Aton | Amenhotep IV or Akhenaton |
| WIfe of Akhenaton | Queen Nefertiti |
| An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | Hieroglyphs |
| 2613-2181 BCE - Age of the pyramids | Old Kingdom |
| 2030-1650 BC- Transitional period | Middle Kingdom |
| 1550-1070 BCE - Age of pharaohs | New Kingdom |
| Ruler is political and religious leader | Theocracy |
| a society of people who lived along the Nile River in the northeast corner of Africa | Egyptian civilization |