| A | B |
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| agriculture | the raising of plants and animals for human use |
| irrigation | the watering of land by canals and pipes |
| delta | a very fertile, flat land made of silt left behind as a river drains into a larger body of water |
| desert | a hot, dry region covered by sand |
| Ra | Egyptians believed him to be the sun god who gave life to earth |
| hieroglyphics | ancient Egyptian picture writing |
| Rosetta Stone | solved the riddle of hieroglyphics |
| scribes | males who kept written records of everything in ancient Egyptian life |
| papyrus | a reed plant that grows along the Nile River |
| pharaoh | king of ancient Egypt |
| King Tut | only pharaoh of Egypt known to still rest in the Valley of the Kings |
| Menes | the first pharaoh of Egypt |
| pyramid | a four-sided structure that tapers to a pointed top; used as a tomb |
| mummy | an ancient Egyptian body wrapped for preservation |
| canopic jars | jars that held the organs of mummies |
| sarcophagus | coffin Egyptians buried mummies in |
| sphinx | believed to have been used to guard the pyramids |
