Ancient Egypt
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| Pharaoh | Egyptian monarch (king/queen)
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| Barter |
trade, typically conducted without use of a standardized currency
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| Menes | Part of one of the earliest dynasties (dynasty=ruling family)
*united Upper & Lower Egypt
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| Theocracy | *Same person in charge of government (politics) is religious leader
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| Polytheism | *belief in many gods (poly=many)
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| Pyramids | Pharaoh’s tomb inside of these triangular-prism shaped structures
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| Nile River & Silt & Form | *Nile one of the only rivers to flow NORTHward
*silt=fine dirt that made land fertile for farming
*Egyptians depended on yearly flooding to support farming
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| Upper and Lower Egypt | *Upper=Southern Egypt
*Lower=Northern Egypt
* “upper” and “lower” determined by the northward flow of Nile
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| Rosetta Stone | *Stone with story in 3 languages: historians used the languages they already knew to decode the hieroglyphics
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| Hieroglyphics | *Ancient Egyptian writing system (similar to cuneiform)
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| Re (Ra) | *Egyptian sun god
*considered to be one of the most important gods
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| Ka | Someone’s spirit (similar concept to soul)
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| Irrigation | irrigation is a term that includes solutions/innovations for moving water from it’s source to where it’s wanted
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| shaduf | *irrigation ditch with bucket for collecting water
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| Natural barriers | physical features that provide protection
*examples: deserts, seas, rivers, cataracts
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| Mummification | Preserve dead body - use embalming
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| Reading a timeline | *BC/BCE - looks like years moving in reverse order
*AD/CE - years that count “forward”; We are currently in year 2017 CE.
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| Relative location | Where something is in relation to something else
*Ex: Durham is North of Raleigh.
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