Chapter 3 terms that Mr. Davis wants us to know
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| 8323008717 | Tuthmosis III | the most vigorous of all New Kingdom pharaohs was ________, who led his troops into Palestine and Syria and who even received tribute from the Mesopotamian city-states | 0 | |
| 8323008718 | Hatshepsut | Female pharaoh who expanded Egypt through trade | 1 | |
| 8323008719 | Sebiumeker | Nubian creator god and divine guardian of his human devotees | 2 | |
| 8323008720 | Amon Re | Most important New Kingdom god -- combination of Amon & Re | 3 | |
| 8323008721 | Nubia | A Nile civilization south of Egypt that was rich in ores and other resources the Egypt lacked. It was responsible for many of the main reasons for Egypt's rises and declines. | 4 | |
| 8323008722 | Memphis | The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt, near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids. | 5 | |
| 8323008723 | Hyksos | A pastoral group of unknown ethnicity that invaded Egypt and ruled in the north from 1650 to 1535 BCE. Their dominance was based on their use of horses, chariots, and bronze technology | 6 | |
| 8323008724 | New Kingdom | a prosperous and productive society. Agricultural surplus supported a population of perhaps four million people. Pharaohs of the New Kingdom did not build enormous pyramids as did their predecessors of the old Kingdom, but they erected numerous temples palaces and monumental statues to advertise their power and authority. | 7 | |
| 8323008725 | Pharaoh | Egyptian Kings | 8 | |
| 8323008726 | Ta-Seti | stong Nubian realm that flourished | 9 | |
| 8323008727 | Napata | Kushite leaders fled Kerma and set up a new capital here to escape the Egyptians. | 10 | |
| 8323008728 | Thebes | An ancient city in Upper Egypt that became the capital of the New Kingdom | 11 | |
| 8323008729 | Tanis | a port and Egypt's gateway to the Mediterranean | 12 | |
| 8323008730 | Herodotus | Greek Historian, considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively, collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands. | 13 | |
| 8323008731 | Sudan | -people domesticated cattle, became nomadic herders but still collected wild grains; then established permanent settlements and cultivated sorghum, yams | 14 | |
| 8323008732 | Menes/Narmer | Egyptian: Lower Egyptian king who was the first to unify the two egypts | 15 | |
| 8323008733 | Hieroglyphs | pictures, characters, or symbols standing for words, ideas, or sounds; ancient Egyptians used instead of an alphabet like ours | 16 | |
| 8323008734 | Khufu/Cheops | Egyptian pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid; Khufu is his Egyptian name and Cheops is his Greek name | 17 | |
| 8323008735 | Papyrus | A reed that grows along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt. From it was produced a coarse, paperlike writing medium used by the Egyptians and many other peoples in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East. | 18 | |
| 8323008736 | Lower Egypt | The northern region of ancient Egypt, named so because it was located downriver with the Nile's flow. | 19 | |
| 8323008737 | Upper Egypt | the southern part of ancient Egypt | 20 | |
| 8323008738 | Age sets | Sets of different ages that work together to maintain the tribe; have different jobs | 21 | |
| 8323008739 | Kush | A society along the Nile River, south of Egypt, from about 2000 B.C.E. to 350 B.C.E. | 22 | |
| 8323008740 | Kerma | Capital of Kush | 23 | |
| 8323008741 | Middle Kingdom | 2050 BC. - 1800 BC.: A new dynasty reunited Egypt. Moved the capital to Thebes. Built irrigation projects and canal between NIle and Red Sea so Egytian ships could trade along coasts of Arabian Penninsula and East Africa. Expanded Egyptian territory:Nubia, Syria. | 24 | |
| 8323008742 | Archaic Period | 3100-2660 B.C.E.: Unification of Egypt; where the power of the pharaohs was greatest | 25 | |
| 8323008743 | Bronze metallurgy | Mesopotamian metalworkers discovered that mixing copper and tin would create a stronger metal; seventh century BCE | 26 | |
| 8323008744 | Iron metallurgy | Extraction of iron from its ores. allowed for cheaper stronger production of weapons and tools. More abundant than tin and copper | 27 | |
| 8323008745 | Nile River | Egypt is located in northeastern Africa along the ________, the 'lifeblood'of Egypt because of food and trade. | 28 | |
| 8323008746 | Coptic | Egyptian language | 29 | |
| 8323008747 | Apedemak | lion warrior god | 30 | |
| 8323008748 | Harkhuf | An Egyptian explorer who made four trips to Nubia, returning with donkeys, exotic products from Africa, a dancing dwarf, and his cargo stimulated Egyptian trade with other lands. He later became a royal official who was the governor of Upper Egypt. | 31 | |
| 8323008749 | Osiris | Egyptian god of the Underworld | 32 | |
| 8323008750 | Hieratic script | simplified version of hieroglyphics used in ancient Egypt for business transactions, record keeping, and the general needs of daily life | 33 | |
| 8323008751 | Old Kingdom | Period in Egyptian history associated with building pyramids; 2660-2160 | 34 | |
| 8323008752 | Tell el-Amarna | Remains of the captial city built and established by Amenhotep (18th dynasty), Akhenaten changed this to Egypt's capital. | 35 | |
| 8323008753 | Mummification | A process of embalming and drying corpses to prevent them from decaying | 36 | |
| 8323008754 | Egyptian Patriarchy | African women have more influence than in Mesopotamia, regents like female pharaoh Hatshepsut | 37 | |
| 8323008755 | Heliopolis | the Egyptian city that was the center of sun worship | 38 | |
| 8323008756 | Pyramids | Egyptians built these structures to protect the bodies of dead pharaohs. These structures also contained items the pharaohs might need in the afterlife. | 39 | |
| 8323008757 | Horus | Egyptian sky god | 40 | |
| 8323008758 | Akhenaten | Pharoah of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with sun worship (died in 1358 BC); monotheism | 41 | |
| 8323008759 | Punt | A land famous for precious items (gold, African blackwood, ebony, ivory, slaves and wild animals, including monkeys and baboons); name used by the ancient Egyptians to describe a region of east Africa to which trading missions were sent from at least the 5th Dynasty onwards (close to Eritrean region of Ethiopia) | 42 | |
| 8323008760 | Meroe | Capital in a kingdom in S Nubia from 4th century B.C.E. - 4th century C.E.. | 43 | |
| 8323008761 | Bantu | Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. | 44 | |
| 8323008762 | Niger-Congo | a language family which includes most of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa, including Swahili, Yoruba, and Zulu | 45 | |
| 8323008763 | Mande | a people who spoke a Niger-Congo language | 46 | |
| 8323008764 | Aten | an Egyptian deity associated with the sun (monotheism) | 47 | |
| 8323008765 | King Kashta | King of Kush; founded Kushite dynasty; conquered Thebes; ruled Egypt | 48 |
