Egypt
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- Vizier
- cheif minister
- Amon-Re
- god/pharaoh of the sun
- Monotheism
- the belief in one god
- Tutmosis III
- next in line to be pharaoh when he was 3 so his mother Hatshepsut took over and did not give her place up until 25 years later
- Dynasty
- ruling family
- Demotic
- a simpler form of writting
- Howard Cater
- located two significant tombs in Egypt
- Menes
- united upper and lower Egypt
- Cleopatra VII
- last leader of Egypt
- Cataract
- waterall
- Amit
- the eater of the dead
- Aton
- a minor god whose symbol was the sun's disk
- Tutmosis I
- Hatshepsut's father
- Hyksos
- invaded at the beginning of the Middle Kingdom
- Tutankhamen
- the son-in-law of Akhenaton
- Mummification
- the preservation of the dead
- Anubis
- the god of mummification and embalming
- Papyrus
- a plant that grows on the banks of the Nile
- Napoleon
- a great adventurer
- Memphis
- the capitol of Egypt in the Old Kingdom
- Ramses II
- the most powerful pharaoh of the New Kingdom
- Delta
- a triangular marshalnd formed by deposists of silt at the mouth of some rivers
- Pharaohs
- Egyptian rulers
- Jean Fracois Champollion
- realized that hieroglyphics were both ideograms and phonetic
- Decipher
- decode
- Akhenaton
- a pharaoh who was montheistic to Aton
- Thomas Young
- deciphered demotic
- Horus
- son of Osiris and Isis took, revenge on the god Set
- Thoth
- the god of writting
- Hatshepsut
- the first woman pharaoh
- The Great Pyramid
- the tomb of Khufu in Giza
- Set
- Horus's uncle, killed his brother Set
- Osiris
- god of the Nile and ruled over the underowrld
- Hittites
- made a treaty with Ramses II
- Aye
- Tutankhamen vizier
- Tutmosis II
- Hatshepsut's brother and husband
- Regent
- a replacement king
- Isis
- taught women diverse tasks and promised life after death
- Hieroglyphics
- a form of picture writting
- Nefertiti
- Akhenaton's wife
- Ideograms
- pictures that resemble ideas or actions
- Ankh
- a tau cross with a loop at the top
- Book of the Dead
- contains spells for the dead to use in the afterlife
- Silt
- rich soil