Egypt Vocab
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- Lower Egypt
- one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt
- Cleopatra
- beautiful and charismatic queen of Egypt
- afterlife
- life after death
- Isis
- Egyptian goddess of fertility
- pharaoh
- the title of the ancient Egyptian kings
- Horus
- Egyptian falcon-headed solar god
- obelisk
- a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top
- independance
- doing things by ones self
- hieroglyphics
- a system of writing using symbols or pictures
- canals
- Waterway made by people
- beeswax
- substance used to stuff the nostrils of a mummy
- Hykos
- the rulers of foreign lands
- amulets
- A magical charm
- Delta
- a low triangular area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
- Jean Francois Chapollion
- Opened the gates to the new world of science.
- edicts
- An announcment of a law.
- silt
- mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake
- inundation
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- Upper Egypt
- one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt
- pyramid
- a massive memorial with a square base and four triangular sides
- emergance
- appering of land and disappering of water
- Imhotep
- he was an architect, astrologer, physician. architect of the funeral complex at Saqqara, consisting of a huge stepped pyramid, a processional hall, and other buildings
- Amenhotep
- king of Egypt 1411-1375 b.c.
- cataract
- a large waterfall
- papyrus
- paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat
- Napata
- an ancient city of Nubia and Cush, situated downstream from the Fourth Cataract of the Nile river, in present-day Sudan
- mummy
- a body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt)
- nature
- the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions
- dynasty
- a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
- Two Lands
- Upper and Lower Egypt put together.
- United Egypt
- upper and lower egypt united
- annex
- an addition that extends a main building
- iron
- home appliance consisting of a flat metal base that is heated and used to smooth cloth
- natron
- a chemical used to embalm the body and preserve it
- Meroe
- center of the kush dynasty from about 250 B.C. to A.D. 150; known for its manufacture of iron weapons and tools.
- Kerma
- One of the first African urban centers.
- sphinx
- one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians
- predict
- indicate by signs
- Book of the Dead
- Egyptians studied this to learn correct magic spells for underworld
- Hatshepsut
- queen of egypt (1503-1482). after husband's death (Thutmose II), she bestowed the title of pharaoh on herself and adopted all pharaonic customs, including wearing the false beard
- desertification
- the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert
- Osiris
- Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead
- apparitions
- ghosts
- Tutankhamen
- Pharaoh of Egypt around 1358 BC
- trading network
- Voluntary exchange of goods, services, or both.
- rosetta stone
- an inscription of a black basalt stone