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Families of nobles that remained in power due to a succession of fathers and sons between 3100–30 BC.

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• Egyptian Dynasty

Regions of ancient Egypt where predynastic communities gathered.

• Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt

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The most important and longest rivera in Africa and the second longest in the world.

• River Nile

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Aquatic plant whose stems were used to make writing paper.

• Menes

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Writing system in Ancient Egypt, consisting of symbols and figures.

• Menes

• hieroglyphic writing

The last pharaoh of ancient Egypt, of the Ptolemaic dynasty and Macedonian origin.

• Menes

• Cleopatra

It inhabited the banks of the River Nile in Egypt, and lasted for more than 3000 years.

• Egyptian Civilization

• Menes

The first Egyptian pharaoh who, according to tradition, unified Upper and Lower Egypt and founded the first dynasty that ruled that civilization.

• Menes

• Cleopatra

Process by which a corpse is turned into a mummy to slow down its decomposition.

• Menes

• mummification

Triangle-shaped or stepped stone tomb for pharaohs.

• pyramid

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