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world's longest river
4,000 miles long
Nile river
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largest desert in the world
Sahara
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a bucket attached to a long pole, to lift water from the Nile to the basins
shadoof
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the all powerful kings in ancient Egypt
-Great House
-god that controlled welfare
pharaohs
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huge stone structure built by the ancient Egyptian farmers to serve as a tomb
-entrance always faced north
pyramid
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system of writing made up of thousands of picture symbols developed by the ancient Egyptians
hieroglyphics
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body that has been embalmed and wrapped in linen
-can naturally mummify by freezing or in a dry desert
mummy
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Egypt's third largest city
-suburb of Cairo
-site of the great Sphinx and the three largest pyramids
Giza
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ancient Egyptian statue having a lion's body and the head of a man, ram or hawk
sphinx
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Egyptian Pharaoh who ruled at age 10, around 1360 BC, archeologists found his unopened grave in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings
-Also known as King Tut
Tutankhamen
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a tool with a heavy, wooden club hinged to swing from a long handle
-used to thresh grain
flail
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type of government in Egypt-headed by religious leaders
Theocracy
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Upper class (wealthy) people right under the pharaohs were priests and nobles
Nobles
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steep rapids formed by cliffs and boulders in a river (where the Blue Nile and the White Nile meet to form the Nile)
cataracts
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area of fertile soil at the mouth of a river
-Nile delta is in Lower Egypt
delta
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