| A | B |
|---|
| Polytheism | Belief in many gods |
| Re | God of Sun |
| Amun-Re | Son of Re, King of all gods |
| Osiris | God of death, underworld |
| Hieroglyphics | Ancient Egyptian writing,priests wrote and could read them |
| Tombs | Resting places for the dead. Buried people with the things they would need in the afterlife |
| Mummification | Process by which the Egyptians preserved bodies for the afterlife |
| Pyramids | Tombs for the dead |
| Old Kindgom | 2700BC - 2200BC. The pyramid age, strong pharaohs |
| Middle Kingdom | 2050BC - 1100BC Foreigners invade Egypt, cultural diffusion. Nubia - gold |
| New Kingdom | 1550BC - 1100BC Pharaohs created large empires in Egypt |
| Pharaohs | Egyptian rulers, viewed as gods |
| NIle River | Longest river in the world, Egypt located along the Nile (River Valley Civilizations), the Nile flooded making the soil fertile and good for farming |
| Rosetta Stone | Slab with hieroglyphics and Greek, helped scholars to decipher the hieroghlyphics |
