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Question: What is a title of an ancient Egyptian king?
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Question: What is the process to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying?
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Question: What is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet (Δ, δ)?
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Eta
Question: What is a thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc?
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Salery
Money
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Question: What is the process of unifying or uniting; union?
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Join
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Question: What is a designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented?
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Question: Who was fl. c3200 b.c., traditionally the unifier and 1st king of Egypt: founder of the 1st dynasty?
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Khufu
Ahmose
Menes
Hatshepsut
Question: What was the period in the history of ancient Egypt, 2780–2280 b.c., comprising the 3rd to 6th dynasties, characterized by the predominance of Memphis?
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Question: Who was the second king of the 4th dynasty (c. 2575-c. 2465 BC) of Egypt and builder of the Great Pyramid at Giza, the largest single building to that time?
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Khufu
Ahmose
Menes
Hatshepsut