| A | B |
|---|
| oasis | a place in a desert where water can be found |
| delta | a flat plain formed on the sea bed where a river deposits material over many years |
| nomads | people who move from place to place without a permanent home |
| urbanization | when people in an area move into cdities and those cities grow larger |
| pharaoh | king of ancient Egypt |
| theocracy | government based on religion |
| hieroglyphics | system of writing using pictures |
| mummy | body preserved so that it will not decompose |
| Berbers | indigenous people of western North Africa |
| polytheism | religion based on many different gods |
| pictogram | symbol for writing w/a picture representing the thing it shows |
| scribes | people trained to write |
| Copts | Christian group in Egypt |
| secularism | idea that religion & government should be separate |
| Islamic Shari'ah | moral code & religous law of Islam |
| Muslim Brotherhood | group which pushes for Islamic Shari'ah as a form of government |
