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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| vizier | a high official in the government usually the advisor to the pharooh |
| barge | a broad flat bottomed boat |
| cartouce | a carved tablet repressed a scroll a roll of paper with rolled up end. |
| harpoon | rbed spear used hunting large fish |
| hieroglyphics | writting made up of pictographic picture symbols |
| khemet | ancient Egyptian name for their land it means black land |
| levees | a bank high pile of sirt built a long a river to prevent flooding |
| mummification | the process of preservation the bodies of the dead. |
| nobles | people belonging to a hight class that have special or political status. |
| obelisks | a four sided pillar that ends in a pyramid used s a mounted |
| papyrus | a plant that is made into strips and pressed into material on whitch a person can write . |
| peasants | people in a low ranking social class who often worked in the fieled |
| pharaoh | the fuler of ancient |
| pyramid | a huge structure that was used as a tomb for the egypatian and high officals |
| shaduf | a bucket device for lifting water from the river |
| social pyramid | show each social class order of impotance. |
| sphinx | ancient egtpatian mountens with the body of a long and aman.it gurdes the great pyramid of giza |