Egypt 2
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- the longest river in the world
- Nile
- The French scholar who solved the riddle of the Rosetta Stone
- Jean Francis Champollion
- the Egyptian empire reached its greatest extent during the reign of which pharoah
- Thutmose III
- the first pharaoh of all Egypt
- Menes
- The second interrruption in Egyptian history was caused by the foreign conquest of
- Hyksos, a people of the east
- Foreign powers ruled Egypt during what centuries
- 4th century B. C. to the 20th century A.D.
- A broken slab of black basalt containing a message carved in 3 languages found by French soldiers in Egypt in A.D. 1799
- Rosetta Stone
- the earliest tombs the pharaohs had built for themselves were called
- mastabas
- large stone statues with the heads of men, rams, or hawks and the bodies of lions
- sphinxes
- The strange writing of the ancient Egyptians
- hieroglyphics
- the study of the relics and ruins of ancient cultures
- archaeology
- Egypt's history is divided into three parts. The internal turmoil caused the first interruption and marked the end of what and the beginning of what
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end of the Old Kingdom and
the beginning of the Middle Kingdom - Greek historian who had viewed the ruins of Egypt in the 5th Century B.C. and wrote of his impressions
- Herodotus