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31 Cards in this Set
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Boundry Stone
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Marks territory or area where people grew their crops
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Embalming
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To treat or protect body from decay.
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New Kingdom
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Built a better army.
Wanted to build an empire. |
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Middle Kingdom
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2050 BC - 1800 BC
Pharoahs reunited the country. Improved public works instead of spending on wars. Literature and art flourish. |
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Old Kingdom
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2700 BC - 2200 BC
Builders began Great Pyramid. Menes united Upper and Lower Egypt. |
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Regent
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Someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule.
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Dynasty
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A family of rulers.
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Pharoah
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King
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Vizier
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Assistant to the Pharoah
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Kemet
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Means the "black land". The Egyptians called their land this.
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Cataract
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Rock filled rapids. There were 6 on the Nile.
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White and Blue Nile
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They came together to form the Nile.
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Tutankhamen
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His tomb was found intact, or all together.
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Hatshepsut
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Did not allow her step son to take the thrown after her husband's death.
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Menes
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King who united Upper and Lower Egypt.
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Isis
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Wife of Osiris
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Ra
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Sun god
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Osiris
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His wife is Isis, his son is Horace
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Horus
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Falcon god, son of Osiris
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Thouth
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God of writing and wisdom.
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Anubis
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God of embalming.
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Weighing of the Heart
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Ceremony where your heart is weighed against the feather of truth. If you are lying you get eaten by the Devourer. If you are telling the truth, you go to the afterlife.
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Afterlife
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The next life, in which the dead are believe to live again.
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Ba
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The spirit that travels between the afterlife and now. Bird body and head of person.
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Ka
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The spirit who looked like the person who stayed with the body.
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Opening of the Mouth
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A priest would touch the hands, feet, eyes, nose, and lips of the coffin so that they could function in the next world.
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Book of the Dead
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Need this to get into the afterlife.
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Natron
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Salt used to dry up the body.
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Canopic
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Jar that holds the person's organs.
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Meroe
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Ancient city on Nile, between Fifth and Sixth Cataracts. Had large deposits of iron ore. First Africans to specialize in iron working. Made lots of tools and weapons.
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Taharka
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King of Nubia and Egypt. Greatest ruler of his dynasty.
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