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24 Cards in this Set
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Mummification |
dead bodies that are preserved |
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pyramids |
huge stone structures |
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Menes |
king of upper Egypt who united upper and lower Egypt |
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Memphis |
Capital of Egypt's Old Kingdom located |
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delta |
The flat fan shaped land made of silt deposited at the mouth of the river |
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Lower Egypt |
The northern part of ancient Egypt |
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Upper Egypt |
The southern part of ancient Egypt |
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Nile River |
The worlds longest river which flows over 4,000 miles northward through East Africa into the Mediterranean sea |
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Egypt |
A country in northeast Africa birthplace of ancient Egyptian civilization. |
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Old Kingdom |
Egypt from about 2700 bc to about 200 bc when early pharohs united upper Egypt and lower Egypt |
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unification |
The joining of separate parts such as kingdoms into one |
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Pharoh |
The title used by the rulers of ancient Egypt |
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expedition |
A group of people that go on a trip for a specific reason. |
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Ahmose 1 |
1546 b.c. New kingdom pharaoh who drove out to Hyksos and reunited Egypt. |
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Amenhotep 1 |
1514-1493b.c. Pharaoh who defended and expanded Egyptian territory. |
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Hatshepsut |
1520?-1482 b.c. Female Egyptian pharaoh . |
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Akehenaton |
1380-1362 b.c. Pharaoh who instituted monotheism. |
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Ramses 11 |
1304-1237 b.c. Pharaoh who defeated the Hittites. |
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decision |
A choice made from a number of alternatives. |
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decision making |
Choosing from a number of alternatives. |
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alternative |
Another way of doing something. |
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cataracts |
A steep rapid in a river |
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Piye |
Around 740 B.C. a king of Kush invaded Egypt |
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social pyramids |
A diagram illustrating the social order division within a culture usually showing the most powerful person or group at the peak and the least powerful groups at the bottom |
