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| Sphinx | monument with man's head and lion's body, legs, and paws that stands near the pyramids |
| papyrus | plant used to make the first paperlike material |
| famine | a time of serious shortage of food |
| pharaoh | the title of an Egyption king |
| mummy | a body wrapped and preservedfor eternal life |
| delta | a buildup of loose sand and soil at the mouth of a river (like at the mouth of the Nile) |
| vizier | the 2nd in command to the Egyptian king |
| cataracts | a rock bed piled high in a river creating small waterfalls |
| obelisk | a tall, pointed pillar representing the sun god Ra |
| hieroglyphics | ancient Egyptian writing using pictures for objects |
| Rosetta Stone | the key to unlocking the ancient Egyption writing |
| Egypt | called the "Gift of the Nile" |
| Sahara | the desert that covers most of Egypt and is the world's largest desert |
| Menes | the king who united Upper and Lower Egypt |
| obelisk | the overseer of all the works of the king |
| Hatshepsut | Egypt's only woman pharaoh |
| shadoof | a device used to irrigate Egyptian fields |
| Joseph | the Bible character that was 2nd in command to the Egyption king |
| scribe | the secretary to the ruler in a court |
| Great Pyramid | large stone structure built near Cairo as a tomb for King Khufu |
| Nile | the longest river in the world |
| Africa | world's 2nd largest continent |
| Kilimanjaro | highest mountain in Africa |
| mountain | a landform that rises higher than a hill |
| plain | a flat or level area of land |
| plateau | a highland plain |
| valley | low land between hills and mountains |
| flood, planting, and harvest | the 3 Egyptian seasons |
| desert and river | 2 landforms that protected Egypt |
