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Pharaohs
Egypt
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Vocabulary
Nubia and Kush
100
An imaginary creature with the body of a lion and the head of another animal.
What is a sphinx?
100
Egypt's first pharaoh.
Who is Menes?
100
The Egyptians began to build pyramids during the period.
What is the Old Kingdom?
100
This contributed most of the growth of trade in the New Kingdom.
What is Egypt's conquest of distant lands?
100
A line of rulers from one family.
What is dynasty?
100
Adopted many of the beliefs and custom of Egyptian culture.
Who are the Nubians?
200
Specially treated bodies wrapped in cloth.
What are mummies?
200
Best known because the Great Pyramid was built in his honor.
Who is Khufu?
200
The southern part of ancient Egypt was called this.
What is Upper Egypt?
200
The wive of Amenhotep IV.
Who is Nefertiti?
200
Steep rapids along a river.
What is cataracts?
200
Came from central Africa, bringing ivory and other goods.
What are caravans?
300
The process of treating a body to keep it from decaying.
What is embalming?
300
Formed and army and drove the the Hyskos out of Egypt. 
Who is prince Ahmose?
300
Egyptian arts and architecture thrived during this period.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
300
This job employed most people in Egypt.
What is a farmer (peasant)?
300
Wrote and copied religious and literary texts.
Who are scribes?
300
Kush's rulers moved their capital to this city.
What is Meroe?
400
Government ruled by a religious leader.
What is Theocracy?
400
Egyptians believed these were gods.
Who are pharaohs?
400
 Magnificent temple built in Thebes. 
What is Karnak?
400
Responsibility included making sure the parents were given a proper burial after they died. 
What is oldest son, and sometimes older daughter?
400
Helped historians understand hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
400
Kushites learned how to produce iron from this civilization. 
Who are the Assyrians?
500
A reed plant that grew wild along the Nile.
What is papyrus?
500
Dressed up in clothes of male pharaoh in order to be accepted by the Egyptian people.
Who is Hatshepsut?
500
Herodotus called Egypt the gift of the Nile for this reason.
What is the "lifeblood" of Egypt (Nile River)?
500
Conquered the region of Canaan and moved north into Syria.
Who is Ramses II?
500
A fan shaped area of slit near where a river flows into the sea.
What is a delta?
500
Kush's merchants traded iron products and other items to places far away as...
What is Arabia, India, China and Rome?
600
A flat grassland, sometimes with scattered  trees, in a tropical subtropical region.
What is a savanna?
600
Quickly restored the worship of many deities during his rule.
Who is Tutankhamen?
600
Lived in elegant homes and on estates along the Nile River.
What is Egypt's upper class?
600
He greeted those who had just died at the gate to the next world.
Who is Osiris?
600
A government representative to another country.
What is an envoy?
600
Stronger Nubian villages conquered weaker ones and formed a kingdom.
What is Kerma?