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| cataract | a waterfall or stretch of rapids in a river |
| delta | a marshy region formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of a river |
| Menes | a strong-willed king of Upper Egypt who unified Egypt around 3100 B.C. |
| pharaoh | a king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader |
| theocracy | a government in which the ruler is viewed as a divine figure |
| pyramid | a massive structure with a rectangular base and four triangular sides, like those that were built in Egypt as burial places for Old Kingdom pharaohs |
| mummification | a process of embalming and drying corpses to prevent them from decaying |
| hieroglyphics | an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds |
| papyrus | a tall reed that grows in the Nile delta, used by the ancient Egyptians to make a paperlike material for writing on |
