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Egypt Vocab
WTR Mrs. Kilgallen Egypt Vocab
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Social Studies
6th Grade
12/15/2014

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Unification
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What is the joining of separate parts such as kingdoms into one?
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pharaoh
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What is the title used by the rulers of ancient Egypt?
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economy
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What is the way a country manages money and resources for the production of goods and services?
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scribe
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What is a professional writer who kept records, copied letters and official documents?
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papyrus
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What is a kind of paper made from papyrus, a reed plant growing along the Nile that the ancient Egyptians used for writing?
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expedition
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What is a group of people who go on a trip for a specific reason?
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hieroglyphics
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What is the ancient Egyptian system of writing that used symbols to stand for objects, ideas or sounds?
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delta
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What is the flat, fan-shaped land made of silt deposited at the mouth of a river?
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slavery
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What is the involuntary subjection to another or others?
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social pyramid
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What is a diagram illustrating the social order divisions within a culture usually showing the most powerful person or group at the peak and the least powerful person or groups at the bottom?
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cataract
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What is a steep rapid in a river?
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Old Kingdom
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What is Egypt from about 2700 BC to 2200 BC when early pharaohs united upper and lower Egypt.
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Mummification
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What is the process of preserving a dead body through embalming and drying?
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