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Book of the Dead
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an Egyptian book that preserved their ideas about death and the afterlife - it explains that after death the soul left the body to become part of the divine.
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Bronze Age
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the period in which the production and use of bronze implements became basic to society; bronze made farming more efficient and revolutionized warfare.
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clients
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free men and women who were dependent on the nobility - in return for their labor they received small plots of land to work for themselves.
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cuneiform
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Sumerian form of writing, (from the Latin term for "wedge-shaped") used to describe the strokes of the stylus.
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Hyksos
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called "Rulers of the Uplands" by the Egyptians, these people began to settle in the Nile Delta shortly after 1800 B.C.
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