S.S VOCAB.
Test is on January 11, 2008 Remember to STUDY using this guide!!!
Terms
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- inundation
- a yearly flood
- hieroglyphics
- a system of the Egyptian alphabet
- canals
- an artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation
- silt
- a mixture of bits of rock and soil carried or deposited by water
- pharaoh
- means "great house," or basically referred to the ruler's magnificent palace
- Old Kingdom
- the first time period of the rulers/age of the pyramids
- papyrus
- a paper-plant-like material
- Aton
- a male god
- pyramid
- a burial place for the dead
- Middle Kingdom
- the time of troubles
- Alexander the Great
- Son of Phillip II. He was tutored by Aristolle and became king of Macedonia in 336 B.C. He built a huge empire as ruler.
- New Kingdom
- the first time of a full-time army/time period in Egyptian history when the Egyptian Empire began.
- Queen Hatshepsut
- female Egyptian pharaoh who expanded Egyptian trade routes
- delta
- is a low land formed at the mouth of some rivers by the silt the river drops there
- nature
- the original, natural, uncivilized condition of human kind (not man-made)