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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Savana | A flat grassland |
| incense | a material burned for its pleasant smell |
| Memphis | was capital city during the old kingdom |
| Narmer | the ruler who united upper and lower Egypt |
| Ramses II | One of the most successful pharaohs who conquered the region of Canaan |
| Amenhotep IV | pharaoh who tried to start a new religion based on one deity, Aton |
| Axum | Invaded Kush and destroyed Meroe |
| Hapi | Egyptian river god |
| Re | Egyptian sun god |
| Hebes | Capital city of Egypt during the Middle Kingdom |
| Imhotep | The first great engineer who built the pyramids |
| Cataracts | the natural barrier that protected Egypt in the south. They were waterfalls |
| Farmer | Second lowest class. hard working, seasonal lives dictated by the Nile |
| Ahmose | The king who drove Hyksos out of Egypt |
| What are the rights of Egyptian woman? | They could own property, divorce, and religious ceremonies |
| Why did the Egyptians build the pyramids to honor their pharaohs | To protect their bodies from floods, wild animals, and robbers |
| In which social class did the farmers belong to? whet were their lives like | They belonged to the second lowest social class. They worked on land that was owned by wealthy nobles, they lived in one room houses and had simple diets |
| why is King Tut one of the most famous pharaohs | his tomb wasn't robbed so we know more about him |
| how was Meroe city different from typical Egyptian or Kushite city | It had iron furnaces and was center of iron production |