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17 Cards in this Set
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Silt
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A sedimentary material consisting of very fine particles intermediate in size between sand and clay.
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Cataract
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A large or high waterfall.
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Delta
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A usually triangular deposit at the mouth of a river.
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Dynasty
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A succession of rulers from the same family or line.
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Pharaoh
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A king of ancient Egypt.
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Mummification
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To make into a mummy by embalming and drying.
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Hieroglyphics
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a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound
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Papyrus
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A material on which to write used especially by the ancient Egyptians
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Rosetta Stone
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A tablet bearing inscriptions in Greek and in Egyptian hieroglyphic and demotic scripts that provided the key to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
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Ziggurat
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A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.
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Hierarchy
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Categorization of a group of people according to ability or status.
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Cuneiform
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Writing typified by the use of characters formed by the arrangement of small wedge-shaped elements.
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Civil Law
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The body of laws of a state or nation dealing with the rights of private citizens.
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Barter
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To trade goods or services without the exchange of money.
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Economy
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The system or range of economic activity in a country, region, or community
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Colony
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A region politically controlled by a distant country; a dependency.
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Hammurabi
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Babylonian king codified the laws of Mesopotamia and Sumeria.
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