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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Nile | the longest river |
| Delta | the most fertile areas in the world |
| papyrus | a plant that makes paper or helps make paper. it grew along the river banks it helped the Egyptians by making boats boxes and mats ........ |
| cataracts | rapids in the south and it prevented the Nile from being invaded |
| Pharaohs | kings that the people of Egypt worshiped as gods. |
| mummification | how they perserved the bodies it is the process of this |
| lower Egypt | in the north included the Delta area |
| upper Egypt | in the south extended to the first cataract |
| nomes | what the Greeks called the divided Egypt |
| menes | he was the king who united upper and lower Egypt and he was the first pharaoh |
| Memphis | built as the Pharos capital near where lower Egypt met |
| dynasty | families within a region which the right to be king passed from one member to the other |
| Old kingdom Middle kingdom and the New kingdom | the three kingdoms of ancient Egypt |
| hykoses | a people from the east about whom little is known |
| mastabas | simple brick structures with tops and and sloping sides |
| step pyramids | six mastabas stacked on top of each other each smaller sizes as they go up |
| Great pyramid | thee first and largest pyramid |
| Giza | the area where three most famous pyramids were built |
| Khufu | the largest pyramid was built for him also known as Cheops |
| khafre | the 2nd largest pyramid was built for him he was a pharoh |
| Great Sphinx | a statue of possibly Khafre human face with a lions body |
| Minakaura | the third pharoh that got his pyramid built in Giza |
| mortuary temples | these were built when Egypt ruled an empire the most famous ones was built to Hatshepsut |
| Hatshepsut | a female pharoh who wore a fake beard and mens clothing because she was a female and it was rare for a girl to be the pharoh |
| Ramses the 2nd | liked images of himself many Egyptian and many building structures are still standing of his |
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