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| Dynasty | a sequence of rulers from the same family |
| Pharaoh | a ruler of ancient Egypt |
| Hieroglyphs | a picture of an object representing a word, syllable or sound in ancient Egyptian and other writings Papryus |
| Papryus | a material used in ancient Egypt, made from the stem of a water plant, and used in sheets for writing ("Egyptian paper") |
| Imports | items brought IN to an area to trade |
| Exports | Items taken OUT of an area to trade |
| Delta | a triangular or fan-shaped piece of land made by deposits of mud and sand at the mouth of a river (mouth of river = where a river meets the ocean, sea or lake) |
| Nile | Most important river in Egypt |
| King Tut | One of the most famous pharaohs |
| Geometry | Type of math used by the Egyptians |
| South to North | The Nile River flow |
| Pyramids | One of the largest and greatest achievements of the Egyptians |
| Mummification | the process of preserving and drying out a dead body to prevent it from rotting |
| Bureaucracy | The type of government in the Old Kingdom |
| Vizier | A person in charge of government within a bureaucracy |
| Chariot | a horse drawn carrier that Egyptians used during war |
| Giza | City where the great pyramid is located |
| Hieratic script | A simplified version of hieroglyphics |
| The Old Kingdom | The 1st kingdom |
| The Middle Kingdom | The 2nd Kingdom |
| The New Kingdom | The 3rd Kingdom |
| Black Lands | Fertile lands near the Nile river where people built homes and farmed |
| Red Lands | Land on both sides of the Nile but were uninhabited due to hot deserts |
| Upper Egypt | South region of Egypt, dry, with mountains |
| Lower Egypt | North region of Egypt where the delta flows into the Mediterranean Sea |
| Ka | Egypt's term for the spiritual body |
