Chapter 3-- AP World History Flashcards

10807077915	Egypt	Gift of the Nile- Herodotus predictable flooding of the nile allowed the Egyptians to irrigate and plan for the right time to have an abundant harvest	0
10807077916	Menes	Pharaoh that united the kingdoms creating the old Kingdom of Egypt	1
10807077917	Old Kingdom	built the big pyramids, royal tombs, Pharaohs were sovereign and partial gods,	2
10807077918	Khufu	largest pyramid	3
10807077919	Nubia	established a powerful kingdom with capital at Kerma	4
10807077920	Hyksos	after old kingdom Egypt was conquered by them, little is known about them but they introduced horses and chariots to Egypt	5
10807077921	New Kingdom	focuses more on the people, establishes courts, military forces, treasury, local governments agricultural affairs	6
10807077922	Tuthmosis III	He invaded Palestine and set up an unstable empire for a while	7
10807077923	Kingdom of Kush	revival happened of this kingodom, conquered Egypt and Thebes	8
10807077924	Memphis	located on the head of the Nile Delta	9
10807077925	Thebes	administrative center of Upper Egypt and several pharaohs even took the city as capital	10
10807077926	Heliopolis	city of the cult of the "sun god" Re	11
10807077927	Tanis	on Nile delta, bustling port, gateway to the Mediterranean	12
10807077928	Kerma	capital of Kush located on the Nile	13
10807077929	Napata	emerged as the new political center of Nubia on the Nile's 4th cataract	14
10807077930	Meroe	Southern on the Niles 5th or 6th cataract, presided over the flourishing kingdom o fKush	15
10807077931	Queen Hatshepsut	coruler with Tuthmosis III	16
10807077932	Bronze Metallurgy	mush slower than Mesopotamian when the Hyksos arrived they brought it	17
10807077933	Amon and Re	associated with the sun, fertility	18
10807077934	Aten	turned to monotheism during Amenhotep IV the god had with name	19
10807077935	Osiris	murder by brother saved by his loyal wife and the gods godded him controls the underworld	20
10807077936	Bantu	lived in Niger congo area with their language	21