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15 Cards in this Set
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silt
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a mixture of tiny bits of rock and soil
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delta
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a fertile, flat land made of silt left behind as a river drains into a large body of water
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irrigation
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watering of land by means of canals or pipes
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Nile River
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The world's longest river, it is nearly 4,000 miles long. The Nile River is in Africa and flows northward into the Mediterranean Sea.
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Lower Egypt
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the area of Egypt around the Nile's delta
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Upper Egypt
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the southern part of Egypt below the delta of the Nile
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unification
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the joining of separate parts into one
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pharaoh
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name given to the rulers of Egypt
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economy
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the management of resources for the production and consumption of goods and services
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hieroglyphics
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a system of writing used by ancient Egyptians, it included about 800 picture signs
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scribe
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a professional writer who kept records and copied documents
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papyrus
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a reed plant that grows along the Nile used to make a kind of paper also called papyrus
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Menes
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a king of Upper Egypt who united Upper & Lower Egypt around 3100 BC
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Khufu
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pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid in about 2600 BC
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Memphis
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a city located between Lower & Upper Egypt (near present-day Cairo)
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