6th grade Ancient Egypt
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- Tutanhamen
- famous child-king of Egypt , his tomb was discovered in 1922
- regent
- a person who rules for a child until he or she is old enough to rule
- silt
- a fine, fertile soil found on river bottoms
- ore
- a mineral mined for the production of metals
- hieroglyphs
- picture-like symbols that formed the Egyptians' writing system
- pharoah
- title given to the kings of ancient Egypt
- mummification
- the act of artificially preserving bodies before burial
- Nubia
- ancient region in the Nile River Valley located in southern Egypt and Sudan
- Hatshepsut
- famous female pharoah who encouraged trade with faraway places
- Osiris
- god of the afterlife and ruler of the dead
- New Kingdom
- time period during which Moses and the Israelites left Egypt
- absolute power
- when a ruler has complete power
- Anubis
- jackel-headed god of embalmers
- papyrus
- a reed found in the marshy areas of the Nile River that was used to make paper
- mummy
- the preserved body of a dead person
- Menes
- pharoah credited with uniting Upper and Lower Egypt
- catatacts
- rock-filled rapids on a river
- delta
- a fertile plain at the mouth of a river
- astronomers
- scientists who study stars and other objects in the sky
- Old Kingdom
- time period in which the pyramids were built in Egypt
- dynasty
- a series of rulers from teh same family
- pyramids
- huge tombs with 4 sloping triangle-shaped sides
- Re/Amon-Re
- chief god; sun god
- afterlife
- life after death
- Egypt
- ancient civilization in northern Africa
- Thutmose III
- one of the new kingdom's greatest pharoahs
- Rosetta Stone
- artifact that led to the deciphering of the Egyptians' writing system
- Cleopatra
- final ruler of Egypt before the Romans conquered it
- kemet
- term meaning "black land" used by ancient Egyptians to descibe dark soil