| A | B |
|---|
| dynasty | family of rulers |
| pyramid | triangular shaped tomb to house dead pharaohs |
| pharaoh | ruler of Egypt |
| hieroglyphics | ancient Egyptian form of writing |
| Menes | King that united upper and lower Egypt |
| deity | higher being/god |
| polytheist | belief in more than one god |
| monotheist | belief in one God |
| Ra | the sun god |
| Horus | god of light |
| Isis | goddess represented the ideal mother and wife |
| Osirus | god the dead |
| afterlife | life after death |
| Amen Ra | King od the Egyptian gods |
| Anubis | an Egyptian god with a human body and head of a jackal |
| Akhenaton | first pharaoh to establish monotheism |
| mummification | embalming and drying the corpse |
| Aton | sun god |
| Book of the Dead | a collection of prayers, spells, hyms to guide the soul in the after life |
| MaAt | goddess representing 7 principles of truth, righteousness, balance, order, justice, harmony, and reciprocity |
| canopic | jars that held the organs of the dead |
| theocracy | a style of government where the ruler is viewed as divine, a god |
