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Nile Civilizations
Chapter 3
Qestion | Answer |
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A area at the mouth iof a river. often triangled shaped | Delta |
a rocky stretches marked by saift currents and rapids | cataracts |
conquered the north and the two kingdoms of Egypt were first unified | Menes |
a ruler of anicient Egypt | Pharaoh |
a government ruled by religious leaders who claim God's authority | Theocracy |
a highly structured organization often governmental, managed by offical | bureaucracy |
one of the pharaohs best known for encouraging trade and on of the few women to rule Egypt . | Hatshepsut |
led his army out to confront the htittites | Ramses the great |
tall, thin pillars with pyramid shaped tops | obelisk |
the process of preserving the body with chemicals | mummification |
a form of ancient writhing in which pictures symbols represent sounds | hieroglyphics |
a paper like material made by ancient Egyptians from the stem of the reedy papyrus plant which grows in the Nile river delta | papyrus |
a granite stone found in 1799 that bears an inscription in hieroglyphics demotic characters and Greek; gave the first clue to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphic | Rosetta stone |