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Unit 3 - Ancient Egypt Vocabulary

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the plants of a place or region

Image: vegetation

The title of a ruler in ancient Egypt

Image: pharaoh

a chief official who carried out much of the day to day work of governing

Image: vizier

a professional writer who recorded official information

Image: scribe

a pyramid outline showing the positions of social classes according to their status in a society

Image: social pyramid

Image: status

a system in which people belong to social classes of different ranks

Image: hierarchy

a rich and powerful person; of high birth or rank

Image: noble

a person who does farm work for wealthy landowners

Image: peasant

a symbol used in hieroglyphics, the ancient Egyptian writing system

Image: hieroglyph

A line of rulers that belong to the same family

Image: dynasty

A tall plant that grows along the banks of the Nile that was used to make a paper-like material

Image: papyrus

a series of rapid and small waterfalls

Image: cataracts

a triangular shaped deposit of sand and soil that is sometime found at the mouth of a river

Image: delta

people of wealth and power

Image: elite

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