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17 Cards in this Set
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When the two kingdoms were united, into one country
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unified
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large stone buildings that served as houses or tombs for the dead.
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pyramid
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waterfalls, break up the flow of the Nile.
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cataracts
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a triangularshaped area of soil at the mouth of a river that looks like fingers spread out.
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delta
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_________, or free.
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independent
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a preserved body that was placed in a coffin and put into a tomb.
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mummy
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During the New Kingdom, people began to refer to a king as a god-king or _______, which means “great house.”
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pharaoh
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the Egyptians developed a form of writing—based on pictures—called ________
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hieroglyphics
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An ________ is the way people use and manage resources.
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economy
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On the stone was a passage written in Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and a form of Egyptian cursive writing.
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Rosetta Stone
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we do not know much about kings and life in Egypt until the third dynasty. That is when _________, who was a priest and an advisor, began to keep records.
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Manetho
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Because of the constant need for workers to remain at the work site to build pyramids, a workers’ village was built at ___________, on the west bank of the Nile across from Thebes.
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Deir el-Medina
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The building of Egypt’s largest pyramid began about 2600 B.C. at ___A_____It is called the ___B_____, built for the pharaoh ___C______. Archaeologists and historians estimate that this pyramid took about 20 years to build
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A. Giza (GEE zuh)
B Great Pyramid C. Khufu |
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By 750 B.C., King _______ of Kush had conquered Upper Egypt. His son, ___B______, conquered the rest of Egypt. Kushite kings then became pharaohs of Egypt
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A. Kashta
B. Piankhi (pee AHN kee) |
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About 1498 B.C. a very powerful woman, ______, took power. During her reign, trade expeditions brought back many valuable goods. She also started and finished several building projects.
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Hatshepsut
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Egypt continued to expand its borders during the New Kingdom. About 1350 B.C. _________ became pharaoh.He and his wife, Nefertiti (nef er TEET ee), started to worship a new sun god, Aton. Many Egyptians thought it was wrong to worship a sun god other than Ra. Akhenaten became so focused on Aton that he neglected his duties as pharaoh. His advisors took control.
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Akhenaten
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________ was a kingdom to the south of Egypt. It's borders began at the first cataract on the Nile River. Unlike Egypt, it had tall cliffs of granite rock surrounding the land from the first to the second cataract.
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Nubia
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