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| huge river traveling through Egypt resulting in its main water sources and where most cities are located |
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| an ancient egyptian pharaoh who is thought by some to have been the one to unite egypt |
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| Old Kingdom Egypt was an important period of ancient Egyptian history made famous for the building of the Step Pyramid |
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| a large, triangular stone monument, used in Egypt and Nubia as a burial place for the king |
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| a system of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds, syllables, or concepts. used for official and monumental inscriptions in egypt |
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| Middle Kingdom Egypt was the period of Egyptian history before the invasion of the Hyksos |
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| contained rituals and spells to protect the journeying spirit |
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| group of people who migrated into the Nile Delta and controlled much of Egypt for a time, adopted the ancient ways of Egypt |
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| kingdom when rulers reinstituted the united monarchy and the religious and cultural traditions of earlier eras |
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| queen of egypt who dispatched a naval expedition to Punt to get myrrh |
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| area which had much myyrh and an expedition was sent to get that myrrh |
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| egyptian pharaoh who built a new capital at amarna, fostered a new style of naturalistic art, and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk |
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| a ruler of egypt who reached an accommodation with the Hittites. built on grand scale throughout egypt |
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| a 1000 mile stech of the Nile Valley lying between aswan and khartoum |
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| large desert to help protect borders of civilization |
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| trans-Sahara caravan routes |
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| Trading network linking North Africa with sub-Saharan Africa across the Sahara |
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| incredibly helpful for traveling the sahara desert. led to collapse of Meroe |
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| governor of upper egypt who journeyed throughout nubia |
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| the age when bronze was the primary metal for tools and weapons |
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| a time of isolation, stagnation, and decline that lasted several centuries for Egypt |
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| the period during which iron was the primary metal for tools and weapons |
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| the Nile; **belief in afterlife; gods love them & they love gods; easy lifestyle; self-sufficient; not as elite as other societies; always advancing; rich, fat & happy |
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