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27 Cards in this Set
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Capital of Egypt
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Cairo
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Major river in Egypt, longest river in the world 4200 miles long.
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Nile
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99% of population lives near what river in Eqypt
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Nile
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Capital of Sudan
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Khartoum
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where people live on Nile – reminds people of Δ
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Nile Delta
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Direction Nile river flows
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North
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Area where tombs were constructed for Pharaohs for nearly 500 years
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Valley of kings
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Discovered KIng Tut's tomb
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Lord Carnarvon
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Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty tomb discoverd by Howard Carter 1922 – only tomb found completely intact
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King Tut
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- 1799 was discovered. an Ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis, Egypt in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V.
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Rosetta stone
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Main language of Egypt
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Egyptian and literary Arabic
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connects mediteranian to red sea. Took 10 years to build – built by French 1859-1869
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Suez canal
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built to stop flooding and for hydro-electro power for Egypt – created largest man-made lake.
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Aswan dam
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famous temple built by Ramses II sun shines into temple 2 times a year on his birthday moved in the 60’s
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Abu Simbel
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President of Egypt until being ousted in 2011
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Prez Mubarek
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the last ancient wonder of the world. 4000years old – tallest structure – 475 feet
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Pyramid of Giza
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Egyptions created one of the earliest written languages
Hieroglyphics which could read R-L and L-R down. He deciphered them in 1820s |
Jean Francois Champollion
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- First pyramid step-pyramid, built by Imhotep for king Djoser
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Step pyramid of Saqqara
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- Garding the pyramid complex is the sphinx part man/part lion
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Ammit
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cheif sun god
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Amon-Ra
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god of darkness and chaos
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Seth
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one of the oldest dieties of Ancient Eqypt God of war and protection
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Sphinx Horus
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God of the underworld
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Osiris
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