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Egypt test

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The Rosetta stone   granite slab, found by French soldiers in 1799, had Hieroglyphics,Demotic script, and ancient Greek. Allowed is to translate/read ancient Egyptian  
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Egypt's River   The Nile River  
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Hieroglyphics   drawing/symbol that represents a word/sound  
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Bureaucracy   system of offices/officials that handle government business  
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Polytheism   belief in/worship of more than one god  
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Papyrus   writing material made from a reed found along the Nile River  
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Delta   land formed from sediment deposited at mouth of a river  
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Cataracts   rocky rapids along the upper Nile River  
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Dynasty   ruling family, passes down power from one member to another  
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Pharaoh   king/queen of Egypt  
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Cartouche on Coffins   Believed their Ba and Ka needed to find their way back to their tomb/body  
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Great Pyramid of Giza for who   Built for Pharaoh Khufu, was the tallest manmade structure for 3800 years  
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Nile River Importance   It flooded yearly, deposited water and silt, making fertile soil for farming  
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Who unified Upper and Lower Egypt   King Menes unified Upper/Lower Egypt around 3100 BC  
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Steps Ani took to survive Underworld   Paid for mummification/scarab amulet/protection spells. Bought Book of the Dead to avoid monsters. Scarab amulet protected him while he was tested/heart weighed. Got OK from Osiris to enter Afterlife  
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Process to get to the Land of Two Fields   First mummify bodies,Second do good deeds to get Osiris's approval for the Afterlife  
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Trade between Egypt and Kush   Through trade, Kush adopted Egyptian culture/religion  
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Sumerian and Egyptian religious similarities   They were both polytheists, with many different gods  
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Great Pyramids-Egypt's greatest achievements   Largest/tallest man-made structures for thousands of years, required vast coordination/workers, and required vast amounts of heavy building materials/labor  
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Egyptian Religion-Mummification   Their religion taught that they needed their body in the Afterlife  
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