6th Grade 3-2 Life in Egypt
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Giza | an ancient Egyptian city; the site of the Great Pyramid |
| Deir el-Medina | on the west bank of the Nile, across from Thebes a workers village was built - what was this village called? |
| Menes | king of upper egypt united the two kingdoms of upper and lower egypt |
| Manetho | c. 300B.C. Egyptian priest and advisor who began keeping records of the ancient Egyptian kings |
| Khufu | Egyptian pharaoh who built the great pyramid |
| Hatshepsut | female pharaoh who expanded Egypt through trade |
| Akhenaten | early ruler of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with sun worship (died in 1358 BC) |
| unify | become one |
| pharoah | king of egypt |
| hieroglyphics | an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds |
| pyramid | a massive memorial with a square base and four triangular sides |
| mummy | a preserved body |
| economy | Is the people used and managed resources and how successful it was |
| Rosetta Stone | Jean-Francis Champolion translated it making hieroglyphs readable, had Hieroglyphs, Demotic, and Greek |
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