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| Moses | Received the 10 commandments from god |
| Abraham | the founder of Judaism |
| Founder | a person who started it |
| Judaism | the world's first monotheistic religion |
| Monotheism | to believe in one god |
| Polytheism | the belief in many gods |
| Amon Re | The Egyptian sun god |
| Social Class | a group of people based on status and wealth |
| Pharaoh | the king of Egypt, referred to as a god |
| Monarchy | One person in power of a government |
| Dynasty | A group of families in power for a long period of time |
| Calendar | Used by the Egyptians to mark when the flood would come |
| River Valley | two mountains with a stream of water between them (BOTH Mesopotamia and Egypt were River Valleys) |
| Natural Barriers in Egypt | Deserts, provided protection for the people in Egypt |
| Nile River | the major river that runs from south to north in Egypt |
| Pyramid | a temple used by Egyptians to bury their Pharaohs |
| Africa | the continent ancient Egypt is in |
| Irrigation | the system of watering dry land used by the Egyptians AND Mesopotamians |
| Wheel | A means for transportation used by both the Egyptians and Mesopotamians |
| Plow | A system of loosening up hard land (simple digging sticks attached to a human/animal) Used by both Mesopotamians and Ancient Egypt |
| deity | the same meaning of the word "God" |
| Torah | the holy book of Judaism |
| Hieroglyphics | the Egyptian writing system based on pictures that represent words/symbols and sounds |
| Papyrus | The paper-like material the Egyptians used to write on |
| Osiris | the god of the After Life |
| Isis | Osiris' wife, the god of fertility |
| Ramses II | made the worlds first peace treaty, ruled for 66 years, and was an Egyptian pharaoh. |
| Myth | a commonly told story that becomes a part of a societies history |
| Delta | streams of water near a rivers mouth that deposit fresh soil |
| "The Gift of the Nile" | the annual flooding of the Nile River |
| Geography | the physical appearance of the land |
| Economy | the production, consumption and distribution of a society. |
