human heritage ch 4
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- delta
- fan shaped area of fertile land where a river meets the sea
- Cataracts ( kat'uh rakts)
- a large or high waterfall
- Shadoof
- a machine used in egypt to lift water from the Nile to the basins( bowl shaped holes for watering crops)
- pharaoh
- (the word means great house) ruler priest and a god.
- pyramids
- great tombs for dead pharaohs
- embalming
- process to preserve the bodies of the dead
- mummy
- the wrapped embalmed body
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1)old kingdom egypt
2) middle kingdom
3) new knigdom -
1)old- powerful pharaohs pyramids 2600bc-2100bc
2) lesspowerful pharahos,no pyramids 2100-1786bc
3)began with Ahmose , rich and large cities,prosperous.1550bc-1150bc - hieroglyphic
- a kind of wrting in which pictures stand for words or sounds
- papyrus
- contribution of the Egyptians - paper made from a reed plant
- Narmer a.k.a. -Menes( mee"neez)
- king of upper Egypt(southern egypt) conquered lower Egypt and married a Lowere Egypt princess. which united Egypt.
- osiris
- god of the harvestand of eternal life. an early pharoh who died.
- Isis
- wife of Osiris ruled over the dead
- Book of the Dead
- book of magic spells Egyptians studied
- Hyksos
- People from western Asia who invaded Egypt. Marked the end of the middle kingdom period.