AP World History ch 3 Flashcards
Early African societies and the Bantu migrations
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| 7390525413 | Mummification | the preservation of dead bodies by embalming and wrapping them in cloth | 0 | |
| 7390525414 | sorghum | A grain sudanic people grew | 1 | |
| 7390525415 | Menes (Narmer) | A minor official from southern Egypt who rose to power and extended his authority and united upper and lower Egypt | 2 | |
| 7390525416 | Pharoah | a ruler in ancient Egypt | 3 | |
| 7390525417 | Old Kingdom | (2700-270 bce) unification of Nike kingdoms and establishment of long lasting government, culture, traditions. Pyramids were build, ended with a civil war | 4 | |
| 7390525418 | Khafre | Built the Sphinx, an Egyptian pharaoh | 5 | |
| 7390525419 | Kush | Southern Egypt'a capital. Nubian kingdom that conquered all of Upper and Lower Egypt in the 700s B.C. | 6 | |
| 7390525420 | Middle Kingdom | a period of order and stability that lasted until about 1750 BC | 7 | |
| 7390525421 | Hyksos | a group of nomadic invaders from southwest Asia who ruled Egypt from 1640 to 1570 B.C. | 8 | |
| 7390525422 | New kingdom | Period after the Hyksos rulers | 9 | |
| 7390525423 | Tuthmosis III | The most vigorous of all the new kingdom kings, dominated cities. Making Egypt an imperial power for half a millennium | 10 | |
| 7390525424 | Queen Hatshepsut | New Kingdom ruler renowned for expanding Egyptian trade | 11 | |
| 7390525425 | Hieroglyphics | Pictographs in Egypt, but each one represented a sound and idea. The first writing in Egypt | 12 | |
| 7390525426 | Hieratic | Egypt writing used for every day, cursive form of hieroglyphics | 13 | |
| 7390525427 | Demotic | Egyptians adopted Greek letters into their language and developed their own alphabet | 14 | |
| 7390525428 | Papyrus | Egyptian paper | 15 | |
| 7390525429 | Rosetta Stone | Artifact that unlocked the mystery of Egyptian hieroglyphics | 16 | |
| 7390525430 | Meroitic | Borrowed Egyptian hieroglyphs but used then to represent sounds rather then ideas | 17 | |
| 7390525431 | Amon-Re | The Egyptian gods Amon and Re put together | 18 | |
| 7390525432 | Aten | A deity associated with the sun, was the monotheistic god of Egypt for a while | 19 | |
| 7390525433 | Akhenaten | Changed Egypt from Polytheism to Monotheistic for his rein and made his own God up | 20 | |
| 7390525434 | Cult of Osiris | Myth, Osiris is the god of the underworld and it showed Egypt's view of the afterlife and what you must do to get there | 21 | |
| 7390525435 | Bantu people | Eastern Africa people who lived along banks of rivers and over populated Africa | 22 | |
| 7390525436 | Nyamba | The Bantu god, associated with goodness | 23 |