Keywords+and+Definitions

= = =Keywords and Definitions = This list of keywords and definitions is to help you with your understanding of this assessment task.


 * == Keywords == || == Definitions == ||
 * ====**Afterlife**==== || ====The Egyptians believed that when they died they would make a journey to another world, where they would lead a new life.==== ||
 * ====**Artifacts**==== || ====Objects from the period of time being studied.==== ||
 * ====**Empathy**==== || ====Understanding and entering into another's feelings and experiences.==== ||
 * ====**Hieroglyphs**==== || ====Picture symbols used by the Ancient Egyptians as their form of writing.==== ||
 * ====**Kemet**==== || ====The name Egyptians called their land, meaning the Black Land.==== ||
 * ====**Mertu**==== || ====Peasants who were given labouring jobs.==== ||
 * ====**Osiris**==== || ====The God of the dead.==== ||
 * ====**Pharaoh**==== || ====The king or leader of the Egyptians. Other terms for king included "hemef" or"nesw".==== ||
 * ====**Pyramid**==== || ====Stone Tombs of the Egytian Kings. Its sloping sides represented the rays of the Sun God, Re.====

They believed the dead Pharaoh could climb this way to heaven.
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 * ====**Re**==== || ====The Sun God.==== ||
 * ====**Scribes**==== || ====Men and Women who had been taught to read and write.==== ||