Ancient Egypt Test
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- Middle Kingdom
- a period of order and stability which lasted to about 1750 BC
- Afterlife
- life after death
- Hieroglyphics
- Egyptian writing system
- Rosetta Stone
- a huge stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics
- New Kingdom
- the period which Egypt reached the height of its power and glory
- Engineering
- the application of scientific knowledge for practial purposes
- Pharaoh
- the title used by the rulesof Egypt
- Sphinxes
- imaginary creatures with the bodies of loins and the heads of other animals or humans
- Ramses the Great
- fought the Hitties and nethier could win
- Old Kingdom
- was a period in Egyptian history that lasted for about 500 years from about 2700 to 2200 BC
- Obelisk
- a tall four sided pillar that is pointed
- Elite
- people of wealth and power
- Delta
- a triangle-shaped area of land made from soil deposited by a river
- Nobles
- people from rich and powerful familys
- Papyrus
- a long lasting paper like material made from reeds
- Mummies
- specially treated bodies wrapped in cloth
- Cataracts
- are rapids
- King Tutankhamen
- rich pharaoh
- Menes
- rose to power in Upper Egypt
- Khufo
- ruled in the 2500s BC
- Queen Hatshepsut
- one ruler who worked to increase Egyptian trade
- Dynasty
- series of rulers from the same family
- Pyramids
- huge stone tombs with four triangle shaped sides that met in a point on top
- Trade Routes
- paths followed by traders