Chap 4 Wh

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The Egyptian term that means "Great House"

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Pharaoh

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The capital of Ancient Egypts Old KIngdom

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Memphis

Front 3

In Egyptian Art People are always seen from what angle?

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The side

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Egyptian God of the Underworld is?

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Osiris

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Tombs for the Pharaoh

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Pyramid

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The writing of the Ancient Egyptians

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Hieroglyphics

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Egyptian paper made from reeds

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Papyrus

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Triangle of land at the mouth of the Nile river

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Delta

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Specially treated bodies wrapped in cloth

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Mummies

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The Egyptian Pharaoh that briefly converted the Egyptians to monotheism

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Amenhotep IV

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Rapids in the Nile River

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Cataracts

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Egyptain Pharaoh that built the Great Pyramid

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Khufu

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The chief Egyptian God of the sun

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RE / Amen Re

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The longest river in the world it flows through Egypt

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Nile

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Archeologist that discovered King Tuts tomb

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Howard Carter

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A series of rulers from the same family

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Dynasty

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The first woman Pharaoh

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Hatshepsut

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Material left by receeding flood waters of the Nile River

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Silt

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Time When the Nile Flooded

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Inundation

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Time When the Nile flood waters receeded

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Emergence

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Time when the Egyptians gathered crops

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Harvest

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Egypt is bordered to the East and West by

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deserts

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Egypt is bordered to the North by

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The Mediterranean Sea

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The "KEY" to hieroglyphic writing

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Rosetta Stone

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A tall column with four sides pointed up

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Oblisk

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Egyptian life force

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Ka

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Egyptians viewed Pharaohs as a

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God

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Meroe was an important trade center for

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Iron

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In the 700's king from Nubia that attacked and conquered upper Egypt

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Kashta

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What did the Egyptians call the desert land?

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The Red Land

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Wht did the Egyptians call the land left behind by the flooding of the Nile

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Black land / kemet

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The pharaoh that united upper and lower Egypt

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Menes

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The Egyptian statue with the head of a man and the body of a lion

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Sphnix

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Who built the Sphinx?

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Pharaoh Khafre

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The part of Egypt that includes the Delta

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Lower Egypt

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In Egyptian society the highest class was reserved for

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The Pharaoh

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In Egyptian society the middle class was made up of

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Scribes and Crafts people

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In Egyptian society the lowest class were

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Slaves

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The lower class in Egyptian society were

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farmers

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Belief in many Gods

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Polytheism

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The Egyptian god that created the World

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Ptah

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The Egyptian Goddess of Magic, water and life

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Isis

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Egyptians beliefed that a persons Ka remained linked to what

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their body

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The Egyptians removed all organs of a persons body in mummification except what? Why?

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The Heart because they felt it was the center of being

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The greatest Egyptian temple was

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Karnak

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A home for the Gods built by Egyptians

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Temples

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The boy king that brought back the old gods

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King Tut

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A book written by Egyptians to accompany the dead to the afterlife. It had Hymns, incantaions and prayers

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The Book of the dead