Egypt Vocabulary

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Egypt Vocabulary

• Chapter 4

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Vocabulary

• Delta
• Fan-shaped area of fertile land

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Vocabulary

• Cataracts
• waterfalls

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Vocabulary

• Basin
• Bowl- shaped holes

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Vocabulary

• Shadoof
• A machine Egyptians used to lift water from the
  Nile to the basins

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Vocabulary

• Pharaoh
• The Egyptian king
• rulers from the same families would establish a
  Dynasty

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Vocabulary

• Pyramids
• Great tombs of the pharaohs

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Vocabulary

• Embalming
• Process to preserve the dead

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Vocabulary

• Mummy
• Wrapped body

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Vocabulary

• Hieroglyphics
• Writing in which pictures stand for words

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• Papyrus
• Egyptian paper