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| Ahmose | An Egyptian prince who led an uprising to drive the Hyksos out of Egypt. |
| Akhenaton | "Spirt of Aton"; the name Amenhotep IV went by after he changed the religion of Egypt. |
| Amenhotep IV | Closed the temples of Amon-Re, fired all the workers, and changed the religion of Egypt. |
| Amon-Re | The most powerful god of all; a combination of Amon, the god of Thebes, and Re, the god of the sun. |
| Aton | the sun disk |
| basins | bowl-shaped holes |
| Book of the Dead | a special book of magic spells; ancient Egyptian "Bible" |
| cataracts | waterfalls |
| delta | A fan-shaped area of fertile land; river mouth |
| ebony | A very dense black wood |
| embalming | A process to preserve the bodies of the dead |
| graneries | buildings for storing grain |
| Hapi | the river god |
| Hatsheput | Thutmoses III's step-mother, who ruled Egypt for him until he was old enough. |
| hieroglyphs | A kind of writing in which pictures stand for words or sounds. |
| Hyksos | A group of people from western Asia who invaded Egypt during the Middle Kingdom |
| incense | A material burned for its pleasant smell |
| Isis | wife and sister of Osiris, who helped him rule over the dead |
| Lower Egypt | The northern delta region of Egypt |
| meaning of pharaoh | "great house" |
| meaning of pyramid | "house of eternity" |
| mummy | A wrapped body for burial |
| Narmer | The king of of Upper Egypt who conquered Lower Egypt and married one of its princesses, uniting the two kingdoms. |
| Nile | A river that flows north over 4,000 miles from the mountains of central Africa to the Mediterranean Sea. |
| Osiris | god of the harvest and eternal life |
| papyrus | Paper made form a reed of the same name |
| pharaoh | Egyptian kings |
| Punt | A land southeast of Egypt known for its exotic exports. |
| pyramids | Great tombs built for pharaohs during the Old Kingdom |
| Re | the sun god |
| shadoof | A machine used to lift water from a river to a basin. |
| Thebes | The capital of Egypt in the New Kingdom |
| Thutmose III | A warrior-pharaoh extended Egyptian control into Syria and Palestine, expanding the Egyptian empire. |
| Tutankhamen | The son-in-law of Amenhotep IV, who became pharaoh after Amenhotep IV died |
| Upper Egypt | The southern part of the Nile River Valley; |
