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30 Cards in this Set
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CATARACT
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The rushing water forms waterfalls and rapids.
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DELTA
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The triangle of marshy wetlands
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PAPYRUS
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A long, thin reed, grew wild along the riverbanks
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DYNASTY
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Is a series of rulers from the same family
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AFTERLIFE
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The Egyptians believed in a afterlife, a life that would continue after death.
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EMBALM
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Treating the body to protect it from decay
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MUMMY
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Embalming changed the body into a mummy
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HIEROGLYPHICS
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Earliest Egyptian writing, used pictured to stand for objects, ideas, and sounds
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PHARAOH
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The term pharaoh meant "great house". Also referred to the royal palace
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OBELISK
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HUGE GRANITE PILLARS
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ACCESS
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A way or means of approach
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TRIBUTE
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A gift
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4 gifts from the Nile and their importance
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flooding to water their fields, thick black mud left behind from the flood that enriched the soil, fish, duck, geese, papyrus (a long, thin reed.
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Southern boundary of Egypt
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Upper Egypt, stretch over 500 miles from from the first cataract northward to the beginning of the Nile Delta
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Northern boundary of Egypt
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Lower Egypt, Was the Nile Delta. It was only 100 miles long but many times wider than Upper Egypt.
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King who first united Egypt
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Menes
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Importance of calendar
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To keep track of the seasons and when to plant crops.
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Purpose of Pyramids
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Afterlife, and to be buried there with all their treasures, food and drinks
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Step Pyramid was designed for King Zoser by?
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Imhotep, his chief advisor/architect
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What is the importance of the Rosetta Stone?
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The Rosetta Stone provided the key that unlocked hieroglyphics
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Social position - most important person in social pyramid
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The king was the most important person.
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Achievements in science and the arts
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The created the lunar calendar to read the stars. Tomb paintings are among the finest art.
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Ways that Meroe was an important center
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Rich in natural resources like iron. Became the meeting place for traders
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Similarities of Egyptian and Nubian cultures
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The worshiped Egyptian gods, believed in afterlife,, wore the same crown and their court ceremonies and religion remained Egyptian
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Differences of Egyptian and Nubian cultures
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Developed their own hieroglypic writing, worship a lion god called Apedemak
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Hatshepsut Ruler
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Temporary ruler who sized control,
Placed more importance on peach and prosperity |
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Thutmose III
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Ruled Egypt after death of Hatshesut, placed more importance on empire
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Ramses II
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Had more statues of himself build, built 4 statues of himself at Abu Simbel, ruled after Thutmose I died
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Kashta
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Ruled Egypt as first Kushite pharaoh, 750 BC conquered Upper Egypt and Thebes
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Shabaka
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Led Kus away from Egypt's control
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