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| silt | a mixture of tiny bits of soil and rock that gets carried off by rivers |
| delta | a very fertile, flat land made of silt left behind as a river drains into a larger body of water |
| irrigation | the watering of land through the use of canalsor pipes |
| unification | the joining of seperate parts into one |
| pharaoh | the name given to all rulers of Egypt |
| economy | how a places people manages money and resources for the production of goods and services |
| hieroglyphics | a system of writing, made up of about 800-pictures signs |
| scribes | writers who traveled throughout Egypt to keep records of details |
| papyrus | a reed plant used to make a kind of paper, also called papyrus |
| empire | a group of lands and peoples ruled by one government |
| expedition | a group of people who go on a trip for a set reason |
| a map scale | a unit of measure used to represent a distance on Earth |
| social pyramid | represents a society has few important, rich people and many more workers, farmers and slaves |
| slavery | the practice of one person owning another |
