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The first female pharaoh.
Hatshepsut
An Egyptian King.
Pharaoh
Egyptian image-like writing system.
Hieroglyphics
This person was referred to as, "the Son of Ra".
Pharaoh
The boy-pharaoh.
King Tutankhamun
This ruler made Aten the superior god of Egypt for a short period.
Akhenaten
A line of kings. The right to rule is passed on familially.
Dynasty
The belief in multiple gods.
Polytheism
The lowest class of Egyptian society.
Slaves
Who ruled Egypt during the Ptolemaic Period?
Greece
This ruler united Upper and Lower Egypt in 3100 B.C.E.
Menes
Egyptian belief in balance, truth, justice, and cosmic order.
Ma'at
The process of removing a body's organs, drying it in salt, and wrapping it in linen. Required some wealth to afford this.
Mummification
1 reason for the downfall of the Old Kingdom.
Drought or Nomarchs
The original capital of Egypt.
Thebes
This ruler is best known as being the "greatest pharaoh of Egypt". He ruled for 66 years and signed a peace treaty with the Hittites.
Ramses II
High-ranking government official or officer in Egypt.
Vizier
The name for the deity of the visible sun-disk. Egyptians were forced to worship this deity during a portion of the New Kingdom.
Aten
The Middle Kingdom was referred to as, "The ______ Age."
Golden
Cleopatra VII allied with this Roman to regain Egyptian independence.
Mark Antony
This ruler ordered the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza.
Khufu
This group conquered Egypt at the end of the Middle Kingdom using horses and war chariots.
Hyksos
These individuals took power from the Pharaoh in the Old Kingdom.
Nomarch
The job of the pharaoh changed from being a supreme ruler, to being a, "______ of their people."
Shepherd
Pharaohs began getting buried at this place, rather than in pyramids.
The Valley of the Kings