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| History | An area of learning that focuses on events of the past finding out what happened when, where, why and to whom. |
| Past | Something that happened a minute ago, or 100 more years ago |
| ancient | Connected with something that happened a very long time ago |
| Timeline | Nonfiction test features that help us understand history or the order in which tings have happened. |
| B.C. | Before Christ |
| BCE | Before the Common Era (Another for Before Christ) |
| AD | Anno Domini-in Latin means "year of our Lord" |
| CE | Common Era (Another for Year of our Lord) |
| Civilization | Large community of people who live and work in a place, have a government o make laws for the group and organizations for education and other social purposes |
| Settlement | A specific location in which they are going to live |
| First thing a settlement has to do | Make sure that people's basic needs are met. |
| Division of Labor | Different people in the community do different kinds of jobs, instead of everybody just working to find food and shelter. |
| Ancient Egypt | Birthplace of one of the world's greatest civilizations |
| NIle River | Flows north through the center of the country Egypt. |
| Nile Delta | The river split into many fan-shaped channels at the mouth or end of the river, forming.....? |
| Nile River | Used as means of transportation, rade, water,irrigation for their crops. Without this the ancient Egyptians could not have created their civiilization |
| True | T or F: The Egyptians knew when the NIle River would flood because it happened the same time every year. |
| Inundation | To be covered with water, especially with floodwater |
| Akhet | Means time of inundation |
| 365 days | Egyptians calender has how many days |
| Hilometer | A tool to measure how much the river rose each year, so that they culd predict whether they would have a good harvest. It looked like a yardstick that was placed in the river |
| Peret | Means "time of emergence"When extra water could not be absorbed into the ground and ran back into the river |
| Emergence | to come out from being covered or hidden |
| Harvest or Shemu | When the farmers would gather their crops from the fields to get them ready for eating, selling, or making into other goods. |
| Irrigation | A system of bringing water to dry land for watering crops |
| Shaduf | A machine to help them with the first stage of lifting water buckets out of the reservoir |
| Hieroglyphics | Pictures Egyptians used for their writing |
| Scribe | A person whose job to keep track of all the records of Egypt and to paint information about the lives of the pharaohs on monuments and tombs. |
| Papyrus | What Scribes used to write down important documents which was made from reeds that grew near the Nile. |
| Egyptologists | People who study ancient Egypt |
| Pharoahs | Ruler of Egypt |
| Inherited | To receive an object or position upon the death of someone |
| King Menes | King of Upper Egypt who conquered and took lover Egypt 5000 years ago |
| Queen Hatshepsut | a woman pharaoh. Wife of Pharoah Thutmose and reigned for 20 years |
| Tutankhamen | well know Pharoah because his tomb was discovered in 1930 with many treasures still inside. |
| Ramses II | A Pharoah who was a successful warrior who had many monuments built for himself, and Khufu, who had the Great Pyramid of Giza built to be his tomb. |
| Afterlife | The idea that after they died, their souls still lived on. |
| Tombs | Places where the person would be furied along with their possessions |
| Pyramids | Made of large blocks of stone, are the greatest architectural acheivement of ancient Egypt. |
| Great Pyramid at Giza | Built around 2500 BC to be Pharaoh Khufu's tomb |
| Obelisks | Built to separate the day from night. Sometimes built as monuments, or in memory of someone or something |
