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| Nile River | Longest river in the world and important to life in Egypt |
| Upper Egypt | United with Lower Egypt by King Narmer, located in Northern Egypt on the Nile Delta |
| Lower Egypt | United with Upper Egypt by King Narmer, located in Southern Egypt |
| King Narmer | United Upper and Lower Egypt and wore a hat that shaped both like a chair and bowling pin to symbolize the unification of the two areas |
| Nile Delta | An area at the end of the Nile river where it fans out over an area of fertile soil, great for farming |
| Mediterranean Sea | Located north of Egypt, the Nile river flowed into it |
| Old Kingdom | Period in ancient Egyptian history from 2686 BC to 2182 BC |
| Pyramid | A type of ancient Egyptian building used as a tomb for the pharaoh |
| Pharoah | An ancient Egyptian ruler who was believed to be part god and part human |
| Tomb | An structure where one is buried |
| Middle Kingdom | Period of ancient history from 2025 BC to 1782 BC |
| Golden Age | A time period during which the civilization reachests its high point in wealth and knowledge |
| New Kingdom | Period of ancient history from 1539 BC to 1070 BC |
| Valley of Kings | An area in Egypt where many ancient Egyptian kings were buried after they stopped building pyramids |
| dynasty | When a line of rulers pass down their leadership from father to son to grandson |
| Giza | The location of the Great Pyramid |
| Great Sphinx | A monument built near the Great Pyramid that had the head of a pharoah and the body of a lion |
| hieroglyphs | Egyptian system of writing made up of picture symbols |
| mummy | The wrapped body of a pharaoh |
| papyrus | A reed plant that could be made into paper in which one could write hieroglypics on |
| Rosetta Stone | A tablet that had two Egyptian writings (Hieroglyphs and Demotic scrpt) and Greek writing on it, which helped use understand how to read Egyptian Hieroglyphs |
| embalming | The process of preserving a dead body |
| King Khufu | Responsible for building the Great Pyramid |
| Ahmose | Removed the Hykos from Egypt and started the New Kingdom period |
| Granite | material used to build the inside of a pyramid |
| limestone | material used to cover the outside of the pyramid |
| scribe | A person who was educated and used hierglyphs to write |
| natron | A white salt from the nile that was used to dry out a dead body, used in the embalming process |
| afterlife | the belief that there is life after death |
| canopic jars | Jars that were used to store the internal organs of a mummy |
| amulets | trinkets or charms wrapped with the mummy to keep evil spirits away |
| quarry | A site wear limestone or granite was mined to be used on the pyramid |
| masataba | tombs for nobles and the pharaoh's family |
| Ka | the spiritual duplicate of the dead pharaoh |
| Ma'at | The Egyptians believed that this was what kept life in order and in balance |
