Kemet: Ancient Egypt Vocabulary

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  1. 5. a water pumping system for irrigation that looks like a seesaw
  2. 7. a form of writing used in ancient Egypt, in which pictures or symbols are used to represent objects, concepts, or sounds
  3. 10. a tall aquatic plant used by Ancient
  4. 13. a special way of writing used by priests in ancient Egypt
  5. 15. a sequence of rulers from the same family
  6. 16. the act or taking over a state or kingdom by using an army.
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  1. 1. the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
  2. 2. a scientific process used to preserve a dead body by embalming, drying and wrapping it
  3. 3. a title for rulers of ancient Egypt, it mean “Great House”
  4. 4. to make a sort of paper to write on
  5. 6. a state or government having a king or queen as its head
  6. 8. a type of lifestyle where people live together in one area and do not move
  7. 9. the process of watering crops by bringing in water from pipes, canals, sprinklers, or other man-made means, rather than relying on rainfall
  8. 11. aka ‘mia’ they are ancient massive structures found especially in Egypt having typically a square bottom, outside walls in the form of four triangles that meet in a point at the top
  9. 12. relating to a group of people to regularly move from different located and do not settle permanently
  10. 14. a human-made waterway that allows boats and ships to pass from one body of water to another