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| paper made from the papyrus reed |
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| 9 year old pharaoh; son-in-law of Amenhotep IV |
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| pharaoh who created a monotheisitc religion |
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| Amenhotep's new name; "Spirit of Aton" |
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| writing in which pictures stand for words or sounds |
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| New Kingdom god; Amon (god of Thebes) and Re (Sun god) |
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| capital of Egypt in the New Kingdom |
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| female pharaoh nor interested in war; stepmother of Thutmose III |
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| Egyptian prince who drove the Hyksos out of Egypt |
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| preserving the bodies of the dead |
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| great tombs for the pharaohs built on the west bank of the Nile |
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| a ruler, a priest, and a god; means "great house" |
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| king of Upper Egypt who conquered Lower Egypt and created a capital at Memphis; also called Menes |
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| machine to lift water from the Nile into the basins |
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| fan shaped area of fertile land where a river meets a larger body of water |
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| western Asian people who invaded Egypt and ended the Middle Kingdom; forced out by Ahmose |
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| linen-wrapped body of an embalmed dead person |
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| god of harvest and eternal life |
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| wife of Osiris; ruled underworld with him |
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| located in southern Egypt; one of the 2 kingdoms that existed before the Old Kingdom began |
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