| A | B |
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| Silt | when a river recedes it leaves a rich deposit of fertile black mud |
| Cataract | boulders turn the river into churning rivers |
| Hieroglyphics | an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds |
| Delta | marshy, triangular area of land formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of a river |
| Pharoah | Egyptian god-king |
| Rosetta Stone | a polished black stone inscribed with a message in three languages |
| Mummification | Egyptian bodies were preserved by embalming and drying the corpse |
| Demotic | a kind of simple written language used by ordinary people |
| Papyrus | a tall reed that grows in the Nile Delta, used by the ancient Egyptians to make a paperlike material to write on |
| Narmer/Menes | he unified Upper and Lower Egypt |
| Deity | a god or goddess (in a polytheistic religion) |
| Canopic Jars | embalmers used them to place the brain, liver, and other organs of a mummy in these jars |
