Early Egypt I
The names of the seasons in Ancient Egypt
What are Inundation, Growth and Harvest?
He gained control of Upper and Lower Egypt during this period
Pharaoh Narmer in the Old Kingdom.
What is a mastaba?
A mastaba is a typical gravemarker for elites.
Pharaohs unified Egypt again in the Middle Kingdom using this method
How did keeping a standing military force help the pharaohs of the Middle Kingdom?
The god Aten
Which god did Akhenaten worship?
The Nile did not flood sufficiently.
The idea that a political ruler held his power by favor of a god or gods
What is divine kingship?
Were the workers(that worked on the Great Pyramids)enslaved people or peasants.
Peasants.
The Semitic people that originated in the Middle East but invaded Egypt
Who were Hyksos?
The Pharaoh Tutankhamen
Whose advisor made the Egyptians worship the traditional gods?
The Ancient Egyptians believed that he caused the annual flooding of the Nile River.
Why is the god Hapi important?
He was portrayed as Horus, a god of Lower Egypt
Who was Pharaoh Narmer?
Why did Egyptians trade goods?
Egyptians traded goods because the goods they received were important for construction projects.
These are four of the innovations that the Hyksos brought to Ancient Egypt when they invaded.
What are bronze working, pottery techniques, new breeds of animals and crops, the horse and chariot, the composite bow, battle axes, and fortification techniques.
Pharaohs Seti I and RamsesII
Who fought the Libyans to the west and the Hittites to the north?
The three periods of Ancient Egyptian history.
What are the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, and the New Kingdom?
A form of writing tht used images to express sounds and meanings
What is hieroglyphics?
What period was Egypt unified as a single state?
During the Old Kingdom period.
Female pharaoh who built up trade and commissioned hundreds of construction projects.
Who is Pharaoh Hatshepsut?
It came from the word palace.
What did the name pharaoh come from?
The Sahara Desert expanded.
What caused people to move closer to the Nile River?
Two types of constructions that directed annual flooding away from living areas and toward the crops
What are levees and canals?
What did the Egyptians trade?
They traded, ebony, incense, gold, copper, and Lebanese cedar.
The New Kingdom began in 1550 BCE with this event
What did the expulsion of the Hyksos from Egypt cause and when?
The city of Kadesh
Where did the Egyptians battle the Hittites?