pharaohs, the name for powerful ruler in ancient Egypt, hieroglyphics, the system of writing that uses small pictures to represent sounds or words, phosphate, a chemical salt used to make fertilizer, delta, an area where sand, silt, clay, or gravel is dropped at the mouth of a river, ergs, a large area of sand, caliph, the successor to Muhammad, silt, small particles of rich soil, convert, to change from one thing to another, aquifers, an underground layer of rock through which water flows, myrrh, a sweet perfume used as medicine in ancient times, nomads, a person who lives by moving from place to place to follow and hunt herds of migrating animals or to lead herds of grazing animals to fresh pasture, regime, a government, constitution, a document setting forth the structure and powers of a government and the rights of people in a country, monotheistic, the belief in one god, fundamentalists, a person who believes in the strict interpretation of religious laws, wadis, a dry riverbed that fills with water when rare rains fall in a desert, civil war, a fight between opposing groups for control of a country's government, souk, a large, open-air market in North African and Southwest Asian countries, fellaheen, the peasant farmers of Egypt who rent small plots of land, diversified, increased variety to achieve a balance, couscous, a small, round grain used in North African and Southwest Asian cooking.

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