the old kingdom of egypt

• Today in class since a lot of people were sick, we finished notes on chapter 2. Here were some of the main vocab:

• Narmer -  A king of Egypt identified by modern scholars as the Menes of tradition and depicted as the unifier of Upper and Lower Egypt 

• Pharaohs - Egyptian god-kings thought to be almost as splendid and powerful as the gods in the heavens

• Theocracy - Government in which rule is based on religious authority

• Pyramid - a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, especially one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt

• Mummification - How royal or elite Egyptians bodies were preserved, which involves embalming and drying the corpse to prevent it from decaying

• Hieroglyphics - were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt using pictures to represent things and sounds

• Papyrus - A plant that was used as a writing surface in ancient times

Egyptians were taken over by the I forgets, and the Old Kingdom officially ended. A new Egyptian Kingdom would rise later though.