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What is the Nile?
This river gives vitamins and minerals to the soil in Egypt.
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What is Africa?
Egypt is located on this continent
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What are pharaohs?
Egyptian rulers
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What is a canal?
These were used to water crops and help when the Nile flooded.
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What is the Sahara Desert?
The desert located in Egypt
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What are pyramids?
Structures built by Egyptians as burial places
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What is a shaduf?
Farmers used this to lift water from the river to their fields.
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What are hieroglyphs?
Pictures that were used to represent words in ancient Egypt
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Who was Khufu?
The Egyptian ruler who had the Great Pyramid built.
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What is polytheistic?
The religion of the ancient Egyptians
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What is papyrus?
A type of paper that the Egyptians used for writing
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What is a Sphinx?
A large statue that has the body of a lion and the head of a man
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What is treasure?
This was placed into the pyramids with the bodies to be used in the afterlife.
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Who is Amon-Ra?
The god of the sun and the creator of the world
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Who was Khafre?
The Egyptian ruler that had the statue made with the head of a man and the body of a lion.
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