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Ancient Egypt
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Afterlife | Life that is believed to occur after death. |
| Annex | To add territory to an existing country, state, or city. |
| commercial | Relating to the buying or selling of goods |
| decipher | to figure out or translate |
| embalmer | a person who mummifies a dead body |
| export | to send goods out for sale |
| hieroglyphs | a picture-based writing system |
| import | to bring goods in to sell |
| irrigate | to supply crops with water by using dams and canals |
| laborer | a person who works for wages (money) |
| maat | an ancient Egyptian concept of order or balance in the world |
| mummification | the process of turning a body into a mummy by drying it out |
| pharaoh | a king of ancient Egypt |
| surplus | being in an amount that is more than is needed |
| tribute | a payment by one ruler or nation to another |
| vizier | the highest official in ancient Egypt under the pharaoh |