AP World History Chapter 3 Flashcards

8319615950	The first clear view of an after-world in the ancient world came from	Egypt	0
8319615951	By around ______ B.C.E. peoples of the eastern Sudan started to domesticate cattle and became nomadic herders	9000	1
8319615952	The early Sudanic societies recognized a single divine force as the source of good and evil, and they associated it with	rain	2
8319615953	Do to a climate shift the Sahara desert, which had been cool and well watered, became increasingly arid and uninhabitable around	5000 B.C.E.	3
8319615954	The Greek historian Herodotus used the phrase "the gift of the ______" to describe Egypt	Nile	4
8319615955	In regards to political organization, Egypt	was much more organized than Mesopotamia	5
8319615956	Egypt was united around 3100 B.C.E. by the conqueror	Menes	6
8319615957	Egyptians associated the early pharaohs with	Horus	7
8319615958	The largest Egyptian pyramids were built during the	Old Kingdom	8
8319615959	______ is the largest of all the pyramids	Khufu	9
8319615960	During the third millennium the Egyptians traded with the Nubian kingdom of	Kush	10
8319615961	The capital of the kingdom of Kush was	Kerma	11
8319615962	Harkhuf was	an Egyptian explorer who visited Nubia	12
8319615963	Pharaohs in the Middle Kingdom were	less powerful than pharaohs of the Old Kingdom	13
8319615964	The pharaoh Neferkare was most excited to see ______ brought back from Nubia by the explorer Harkhuf	the dancing dwarf	14
8319615965	the Hyksos were	external invaders who helped bring about the end of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom	15
8319615966	Horse-drawn chariots and bronze weapons were introduced into Egypt by the	Hyksos	16
8319615967	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	Tuthmosis III	17
8319615968	The Egyptians were the most imperialistic during the	New Kingdom	18
8319615969	During the eighth century B.C.E. Egypt fell under the control of the ______ for around a century	Kushites	19
8319615970	Around 760 B.C.E. the Kushite King Kashta	founded a dynasty that ruled Egypt for around a hundred years	20
8319615971	In the mid-seventh century B.C.E. Egypt lost its independence and became a part of	the Assyrian empire	21
8319615972	The conqueror Menes founded ______ around 3100 B.C.E., a city that would serve as the capital for early Egypt	Memphis	22
8319615973	Hatshepsut was	the first woman to rule Egypt as pharaoh	23
8319615974	In which of the following societies did women enjoy the most freedom and opportunity	Egypt	24
8319615975	In Kush	there is evidence for many female rulers	25
8319615976	A kandake was	a female regent in Kush	26
8319615977	In Africa, iron metallurgy	arose independently	27
8319615978	The Egyptians traded through the Red Sea with a land they called Punt, which is probably	modern day Somalia	28
8319615979	The Greek words meaning "holy inscriptions" refers to	hieroglyphics	29
8319615980	The Egyptian work, "The Satire of the Trades,"	reflected a scribe's desire for his son to become a scribe himself and avoid other unpleasant jobs	30
8319615981	Meroitic writing	was a Nubian script that borrowed Egyptian hieroglyphics	31
8319615982	The cult of Amon-Re	was a combination of the Egyptian air and sun gods	32
8319615983	The cult of Amon-Re is the best example of	how the Egyptians associated various gods with each other	33
8319615984	What Pharaoh tried, unsuccessfully, to transform Egypt into a monotheistic society	Akhenaton	34
8319615985	Besides the Hebrews, the only other example of monotheism from the ancient world occurred during the reign of	Akhenaton	35
8319615986	The line, "O Sole God beside whom there is none! You made the earth as you wished," is drawn from	the Great Hymn to Aten	36
8319615987	The Egyptian god of the underworld was	Osiris	37
8319615988	Osiris judged whether or not souls were worthy for immortality by	weighing their hearts against a feather symbolizing justice	38
8319615989	During the Old Kingdom	only the pharaohs received the honor of mummification	39
8319615990	The Bantu originally came from around	Modern day Nigeria	40
8319615991	The tribes which, beginning as early as 3000 B.C.E., began to spread their language and agriculture techniques throughout Africa were the	Bantu	41
8319615992	In relation to spreading their language across a huge stretch of Africa the Bantu played a role similar to that played by the	Indo-Europeans	42
8319615993	The Bantu probably began their migrations because of	population pressures	43
8319615994	By the middle of the first millenium B.C.E. the Bantu people had begun to produce	iron	44