Anceint Egypt Vocab.
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- Tutankhamen
- a pharaoh of Egypt around 1358 BC whoonly ruled for a short time
- independence
- freedom from control or influence of other people
- Thutmose 3
- Hatshepsut's stepson who rebuilt city of thebes
- Kerma
- at the 3rd cataract of the nile-they rose in power when egypt was weakening
- Napata
- the capital of the African kingdom of Kush that controlled egypt; built pyramids and adopted many egyptian customs near the fourth cataract of the nile
- Amenhotep
- a king of Egypt 1411-1375 b.c., king of Egypt, and his reign was one of peace and proserity
- Osiris
- the Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead
- natron
- a mineral salt found in soil from dry lake beds that is sometimes called Holy salt
- Piye and Kashta
- a king of Kush; conquered Lower Egypt, a king of Kush; Piye's father
- Rosetta Stone
- an inscription of a black basalt stone
- Emergence
- the act of going/moving out
- King Narmer
- a ruler who may have united the Two Lands of Egypt
- edicts
- commands or orders
- Jean Francois Chapollion
- he opened the gates to the new world of science.
- apparitions
- a ghost or a ghost-like figure of a human
- Nubia/Kush
- an East African trading empire that developed south of Egypt on the Nile River, an ancient nubian kingdom whose rulers contolled egypt between 2000 and 1000 B.C.
- Two Lands
- the Upper and Lower Egypts put together.
- Cleopatra
- she was an egyptian queen who had an affair with Marc Antony. she commited suicide with Marc Antony because Marc was defeated at Actium and Augustus was after them
- Hyksos
- a group of people who arrived in ancient Egypt from Asia and introduced new war tools
- annex
- to add on
- Imhotep
- someone who created the step pyramid at sakkara
- Book of the Dead
- Egyptians studied this to learn correct magic spells for underworld
- Hatshepsut
- a queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.), one of the best egyptian queens; great builder and leader
- Inundation
- flood.
- Meroe
- city in the Kushite empire that become known for its ironworking they made weapons and tools