Kingdoms Of Egypt
The first time a king united the upper and lower Egypt around 3150 BCE was _________
King Menes or Narmer
Ancient Egyptians are of this origin...
African
"Egypt is wholly the gift of t______.”
The Nile
A government ruled by a single person who had absolute power is called a
monarchy
The God of the Underworld
Osirus
The physical preservation of a body in Egypt called a
mummy
The Promised land
Canaan
This period ended with Hyksos invasion
Middle Kingdom
triangle split at the top where it flows into Med. Sea
The Delta
Drought Season harvesting crops
Shomu
The God-King who owns all the land
Pharaoh
Egyptians believed the God Judges weighed a persons ______ up against a ______________
heart; feather
Egyptians believed each person had a life force, that survived the physical body, called a...
Ka
Explain the Covenant
Between Abraham and GOd
-Abraham believes/faith in God
- God gives Abraham promised land Canaan where he can rule and live happy old age.
The Kingdom in which Hatshepsut seized power
The New Kingdom
Beyond the cataract of Upper Egypt was a land known as Nubia and became the Kingdom called...
Kush
North part of Egypt is called
Lower Egypt
Chief advisor of the Pharaoh
Vizier
Egyptians placed this scroll in the tombs of dead which gave them spells to ward off the demons of underworld and safely bring them to the hall of two truths. The scroll, otherwise known as, ______________
The Book of the Dead
The first tomb created for a Pharaoh that looked like a four sided set of stairs was called the ______ ______
Djoser pyramid
This person led the Exodus
Moses
The Kingdom most known for expansion expanding into the Kingdom of Kush ...
Middle Kingdom
Two main tributaries of the Nile that are colors and called...
White Nile and Blue Nile
The sandy/non fertile soil also called
Red Sand "Deshret"
The Egyptian government employed a large number of ___ to keep record
scribes
Akhenaton and Nefertiti promoted the worship of this new GOd
Aten
Egyptians kept formal records of events such as building pyramids in this written system called
Hieroglyphs
Monotheism and faith in God
The period known for trade and diplomacy
The New Kingdom
A semiarid region south of the Sahara where agriculture and people lived until a drought forced them to settle along the Nile...
Sahel
The Fertile Soil along the Nile is also known as
Black Land
The most prolific builder of the New Kingdom and long-reigning Pharaoh who commissioned hundreds of temples and monuments and statues
Ramses II or Ramses the Great
Goddess of truth, justice, balance, and – order and balance... Also a term for an important theme in Egypt of the balance and stability and order of opposing forces...
Ma'at
THis artifact unlocked the meaning of hieroglyphs
Rosetta Stone
Under what King was the Israelite “Golden Age”, where the first great Temple was built in 957 BCE.
King Solomon
What event marks the end of Ancient Egyptian civilization....
The death of Cleopatra, 30 BCE
The Ancient Egyptians Spoke a now lost language that belonged to a mixed Afraisain language family- what are 3 of the modern languages that it includes?
Amaric (Ethiopia) Hausa (Nigeria) Berber (Morocco) Hebrew and Arabic
unnavigable rapids along the Nile
cataracts
9 year old Pharaoh who ruled for only 10 years
Tutankhamen
The Egyptian Sun God for the majority of Egyptian Kingdoms
Re
The more common form of Egyptian Writing was called
Demotic
Kingdom of Israel Conquered by this Empire
Assyrian
This kingdom broke apart into semi-independent regions ruled by rival dynasties...
Old Kingdom
Most Egyptian writing was done on the following surface
Papyrus
Large statue of Lion with human head
The Great Sphinx
This lasted until a family line died out in the Egyptian monarch
Dynasty
Osirus was killed by his brother Set, and his wife, named ___________ put him back together...
Isis
The most impressive pyramid of Giza was made for Pharaoh ______
Kufu
The Temple was destroyed under which Empire and period
Babylonian; Babylonian Captivity;
This is the term for when Upper and Lower Egypt were not united ....
Intermediate period
During this first Kingdom the government was based in the capital city of _______ and the kingdom is ____
Memphis; Old
In the middle Kingdom the ANcient Egypt capital was moved to
Thebes
List what was the narrative that reflected historical bias of Cleopatra....
That she relied on beauty and charm to special treatment....
Recited when the person reached the Hall of the Two Truths
Declaration of Innocence
The season in which construction projects like Pyramids took place (both names)
Akhet- Innundation Period
Freer of the Israelites from Babylonian Captivity
Cyrus the Great