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Nubia
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A desert region and ancient kingdom in the Nile River Valley on the site of present day Southern Egypt and Northern Sudan
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Cataract
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A large waterfall or steep rapids
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Delta
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A triangular shape plain at the mouth of a river formed when sediment is deposited by flowing water
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Silt
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Fine soil found on river bottoms
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Hapi
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The Egypitian God of the Nile
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Kemet
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The term used by ancient Egyptians to describe their land, meaning the black land, a reference to the dark soil left by the nile river
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pharaoh
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A king of Ancient Egypt
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Dynasty
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a series of rulers from the same family or ethnic group
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Absolute Power
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Complete control over someone or something
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regent
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someone who rules for a child until they can rule for themselves
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sphinx
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portrait of King Kafre with a body of a lion
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Tutankhamen
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king the became the ruler of Egypt while he was still a child at about 18 he died and was buried with many precious objects.
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Hatshepsut
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The stepmother of Tutankhamen the third. Ruled Egypt as a regent and then as Pharoh achieved economic success in trade
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Thutmose III
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The stepson of Hatshepsut considered the greatest Pharoah of new kingdom of Egypt. Expanded the empire to include Syria and Nubia; reigned from about 1479-1425bc
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Afterlife
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a life after death
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mummy
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a dead body preserved in life-like conditions.
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pyramid
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a huge building with four sloping triangle shaped sides. Built as a royal tomb in Egypt.
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Giza
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an ancient city site of the great pyramid
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polytheism
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belief in many gods
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Amon-Re
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The chief god the Ancient Egyptians
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Osiris
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God of the Living and Dead
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Isis
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Wife of Osiris and was worshipped as the great mother who protected her children.
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Horus
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The sky god. Osiris and Isis' son
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Smelting
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a process in which heat was used to remove impurities from the metal.
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hieroglyphs
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Pictures and other written symbols that stand for ideas, things or sounds
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papyrus
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an early form of paper made from a reed plant found in the marshy areas of the nile delta.
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astronomer
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a scientist who studies the stars and other objects in the sky
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Champollion
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French Scholar that figured out how to sue the greek letter on the Rosetta Stone to figure out the meaning of the hieroglyphs
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demotic
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an ancient Egyptian Script
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ore
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a mineral or combination of minerals mined for the production of minerals
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artisan
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a worker who is especially skilled at crafting items by hand.
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kerma
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powerful city in the south of Nubia. Ruled by the Kushites. Kerma Culture
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Napata
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Nubian city south of Kerma in the land called Kush. Kusha Kingdom centered
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Menroe
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Kush kindgom centered first in Napata and later in Meroe
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Theocracy
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form of government in which a god or deity is recognized as the state's supreme civil ruler,[1] or in a higher sense, a form of government in which a state is governed by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided.
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Amenhotep IV
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a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, ruled for 17 years and died in 1336 BC or 1334 BC. He is especially noted for abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism and introducing worship centered on the Aten, which is sometimes described as monotheistic or henotheistic.
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Thoth
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was considered one of the more important deities of the Egyptian pantheon. In art, he was often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon; these animals were sacred to him
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