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history review 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| obelisk | it was like a gravestone for the rich. it was like the Washington tower |
| pharaoh | means great house |
| menes | united upper and lower Egypt |
| Dynasty | a time in which the kings can only be from one family |
| Memphis | the capital of Egypt in the Old kingdom |
| old kingdom | when the Egyptains built great pyramids |
| Middle Kingdom | streangthened its hold on culture and countries |
| New Kingdom | Egypt was a world power |
| Imhotep | King Zoser's key adviser |
| Step pyramid | an early pyramid that looks like it has giant steps up it |
| afterlife | the life after you die |
| embalming | treating the body to protect it from decomposing |
| Book of the dead | a book of hyms, prayers, and magic spells |
| amulets | magical little statuettes |
| mummy | a dead person gone through the process of embalming |
| Osiris | chief god of the underworld |
| Anubis | helper of Osiris |
| Ra | chief son god |
| amon | helper of Ra |
| Amon-Ra: | a mix of Ra and amon |
| hathor | the goddes of love |
| horus | the sky god |
| Bes | a dwarf god |
| Meroe | : a capital of Nubia |
| Kush | A country |
| Napata | a capital of Nubia |
| access | the ability to reach |
| trivute | a gift |
| Nubia | a geographical region that stretches along the Nile Valley from the first cataract to the fifth cataract |
| King Zoser: | pharoh during seven years of low Nile. |
| Cataracts | foaming rivers and waterfalls |
| delta | a triangle of marshy wetlands |
| papyrus | a long thin reed |