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| 212927414 | Mummification | a process of embalming and drying corpses to prevent them from decaying; practiced by the Egyptians who preserved the bodies in tombs so they could get the best of their afterlife | 0 | |
| 212927415 | Pyramids | monumental architecture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt; used as burial sites for pharaohs. | 1 | |
| 212927416 | Hieroglyphics | an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | 2 | |
| 212927417 | Archaic Period | after the dark ages; farming reestablished; used iron; adoption of alphabet; revival of some trade; migration to ionian(to help them against persia), 600-480 BCE | 3 | |
| 212927418 | Old Kingdom | 2700 BC - 2200 BC. Upper and Lower Egypt kept separate kingdoms, but later built unified government. Developed basic features of its civilization. BUILT THE PYRAMIDS: an eternal resting place for their god-kings. | 4 | |
| 212927419 | Middle Kingdom | 2050 BC. - 1800 BC.: A new dynasty reunited Egypt. Moved the capital to Thebes. Built irrigation projects and canal between NIle and Red Sea so Egytian ships could trade along coasts of Arabian Penninsula and East Africa. Expanded Egyptian territory:Nubia, Syria. | 5 | |
| 212927420 | New Kingdom | the period of ancient egyptian history that followed the overthrow of the hyksos rulers, lasting from about1570 to 1075 B.C. | 6 | |
| 212927421 | Horus | the falcon- He was the son of Isis and Osiris, shown with the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. The pharaohs were thought to represent Horus on earth. | 7 | |
| 212927422 | Amon-Re | chief god; protected the rich and the poor; judged all human afairs; sun god; born in east, died in west | 8 | |
| 212927423 | Osiris | Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead | 9 | |
| 212927424 | Pyramid of Khufu | Located in Giza, Egypt Khufu (Great Pyramid) - largest Smooth sided, each 230m across 146m high 2,300,000 limestone blocks 2.5 tons each Inside: tombs of King Khufu & his queen World's oldest preserved boat 43m long, cedar (Lebanon) | 10 | |
| 212927425 | Hyksos | the people who invaded Egypt thus beginning the second Intermediate period during which the Hyksos ( a word meaning "foreigner) ruled as pharaohs in Lower Egypt and exacted tribute from the royal families in Thebes. | 11 | |
| 212927426 | Menes | king of upper egypt united the two kingdoms of upper and lower egypt | 12 | |
| 212927427 | Ahmosis | Egyptian pharaoh c. 1500 BCE, founder of the New Kingdom | 13 | |
| 212927428 | Tuthmosis 3 | A pharaoh that ruled right after Hatshepsut and hated her. | 14 | |
| 212927429 | Hatshepsut | Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia), the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler, and after her death her name was frequently expunged. (p.66) | 15 | |
| 212927430 | akhenaton | early ruler of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with sun worship (died in 1358 BC) | 16 | |
| 212927431 | Nubia | an ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile | 17 | |
| 212927432 | Kush | An African state that developed along the upper reaches of the Nile c. 100 B.C.E.; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries. | 18 | |
| 212927433 | Meroitic | Kush's own written language that historians are not able to understand | 19 |
