Egypt

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Theocracy

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A government controlled by religious leaders

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Pharaoh

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King of ancient Egypt, considered a God, military leader. Makes the sun go round

Question 2

Pyramid

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A massive structure with a rectangular base with four triangle sides. But built in Egypt as burial places for old Kingdom pharaohs

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Mummification

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The process of an embalming and drying corpses to prevent them from decaying

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Canopic Jars

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A covered urn in ancient Egyptian burials to hold the entrails from an embalmed body

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Horus

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Falcon headed sky God whose eyes were the moon and the sun. Was a protector of the pharaoh. Osiris and Isis were his parents

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Osiris

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The supreme God who was the first Pharoah. After he died he became the god of the underworld.

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Anubis

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Jackal headed God of embalming and cemeteries. Weighed your heart when you died

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Ra-Atum

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The sun god

Question 9

Hieroglyphics

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An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds

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Papyrus

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A tall read that grows in the Nile Delta used by the ancient Egyptians to make paperlike material to write on

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Rosetta Stone

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Part of an inscribed granite stela that had inscriptions of hieroglyphics, demonic Greek, and Greek. helped decipher hieroglyphics

Question 12

Hatshepsut

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Female pharaoh of the New Kingdom. During her reign, she encouraged trade rather than waging war

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Ramses II

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Pharaoh of the New Kingdom who built many monuments and temples dedicated to himself and to Amon-Ra.

Question 14

Jean François Champillion

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A French scholar. The decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphics