Egypt

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the longest river in the world

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Nile

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The French scholar who solved the riddle of the Rosetta Stone

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Jean Francis Champollion

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the Egyptian empire reached its greatest extent during the reign of which pharoah

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Thutmose III

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the first pharaoh of all Egypt

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Menes

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The second interrruption in Egyptian history was caused by the foreign conquest of

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Hyksos, a people of the east

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Foreign powers ruled Egypt during what centuries

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4th century B. C. to the 20th century A.D.

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A broken slab of black basalt containing a message carved in 3 languages found by French soldiers in Egypt in A.D. 1799

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Rosetta Stone

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the earliest tombs the pharaohs had built for themselves were called

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mastabas

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large stone statues with the heads of men, rams, or hawks and the bodies of lions

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sphinxes

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The strange writing of the ancient Egyptians

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hieroglyphics

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the study of the relics and ruins of ancient cultures

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archaeology

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Egypt's history is divided into three parts. The internal turmoil caused the first interruption and marked the end of what and the beginning of what

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end of the Old Kingdom and
the beginning of the Middle Kingdom

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Greek historian who had viewed the ruins of Egypt in the 5th Century B.C. and wrote of his impressions

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Herodotus