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| shadoof | A machine used to lift water from the Nile to the basins. |
| pharaoh | Egyptian rulers previously called kings. |
| pyramids | Large Egyptian tombs. |
| embalming | A process used to preserve the bodies of the dead. |
| mummy | When a person died, after embalming the body, long strips of linen were used to wrap the body. The wrapped body was known as a _________. |
| legend | A list of symbols and what they stand for. |
| hieroglyphics | A kind of Egyptian writing in which pictures stand for words or sounds. |
| Narmer | Known as Menes, the king of Upper Egypt. |
| Hatshepsut | A pharaoh who was not interested in war and conquest, the stepmother of Thutmose's stepmother. |
| Amenhotep IV | in about 1370B.C., this pharaoh came to the throne. He changed his name to Akhenaton. |
| Nile River | This river flows north 4,145 miles. |
| Thebes | Amon was the god of this city (in the New Kingdom). |
| Osiris | God of the harvest and eternal life. |
| Hyksos | The Middle Kingdom came to an end in 1786 B.C., when these people invaded Egypt. |
| Isis | Ruled over the dead with her husband, Osiris. |
| Hesire | A physican in the Old Kingdom who won the title, "Chief of the Toothdoctors". |
| Memphis | The new capital that Narmer set up, located on the border between Upper and Lower Egypt. |
| Tutankamen | Named "The Boy King", he came to power at the age of nine. |
| 2600B.C. | The year in which the Old Kingdom was established. |
| 2300 B.C. | Middle Kingdom begins. |
