Chapter 3 Flashcards
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| 220274151 | Mummification | embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy | 0 | |
| 220274152 | Pyramids | Huge stone tombs with four triangle-shaped walls that met in a point on top | 1 | |
| 220274153 | Hieroglyphics | an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | 2 | |
| 220274154 | Archaic period | after the dark ages; farming reestablished; used iron; adoption of alphabet; revival of some trade; migration to ionian(to help them against persia) | 3 | |
| 220274155 | Old kingdom | 2700 BC - 2200 BC. Upper and Lower Egypt kept separate kingdoms, but later built unified government. Developed basic features of its civilization. BUILT THE PYRAMIDS: an eternal resting place for their god-kings. | 4 | |
| 220274156 | 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. | 5 | |
| 220274157 | New kingdom | the period during which Egypt reached the height of its power and glory | 6 | |
| 220274158 | Horus | Egyptian falcon-headed solar god | 7 | |
| 220274159 | Amon-re | Egyptian sun god | 8 | |
| 220274160 | Osirius | Egpytian god of the dead | 9 | |
| 220274161 | Pyramid of Khufu | Giza, Egypt ca. 2550 BC | 10 | |
| 220274162 | Hyksos | the people who invaded Egypt thus beginning the second Intermediate period during which the Hyksos ( a word meaning "foreigner) ruled as pharaohs in Lower Egypt and exacted tribute from the royal families in Thebes. | 11 | |
| 220274163 | Menes | king of upper egypt united the two kingdoms of upper and lower egypt | 12 | |
| 220274164 | Ahmosis | Egyptian pharaoh c. 1500 BCE, founder of the New Kingdom | 13 | |
| 220274165 | Tuthmosis 3 | Considered the greatest pharaoh in the New Kingdom. Expanded the empire to include Syria and Nubia. | 14 | |
| 220274166 | Hatshepsut | Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia), the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler, and after her death her name was frequently expunged. (p.66) | 15 | |
| 220274167 | Akhenaten | early ruler of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with sun worship (died in 1358 BC) | 16 | |
| 220274168 | Nubia | an ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile | 17 | |
| 220274169 | Kush | An African state that developed along the upper reaches of the Nile c. 100 B.C.E.; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries. | 18 | |
| 220274170 | Meroitic | Kush's own written language that historians are not able to understand | 19 |