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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