AP World History: Chapter 3 Flashcards

10808861607	The first clear view of an after-world in the ancient world came from	Egypt	0
10808861608	By around ______ B.C.E. peoples of the eastern Sudan started to domesticate cattle and became nomadic herders	9000	1
10808861609	The early Sudanic societies recognized a single divine force as the source of good and evil, and they associated it with	rain	2
10808861610	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
10808861611	The Greek historian Herodotus used the phrase "the gift of the ______" to describe Egypt	Nile	4
10808861612	In regards to political organization, Egypt	was much more organized than Mesopotamia	5
10808861613	Egypt was united around 3100 B.C.E. by the conqueror	Menes	6
10808861614	Egyptians associated the early pharaohs with	Horus	7
10808861615	The largest Egyptian pyramids were built during the	Old Kingdom	8
10808861616	______ is the largest of all the pyramids	Khufu	9
10808861617	During the third millennium the Egyptians traded with the Nubian kingdom of	Kush	10
10808861618	The capital of the kingdom of Kush was	Kerma	11
10808861619	Harkhuf was	an Egyptian explorer who visited Nubia	12
10808861620	Pharaohs in the Middle Kingdom were	less powerful than pharaohs of the Old Kingdom	13
10808861621	The pharaoh Neferkare was most excited to see ______ brought back from Nubia by the explorer Harkhuf	the dancing dwarf	14
10808861622	the Hyksos were	external invaders who helped bring about the end of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom	15
10808861623	Horse-drawn chariots and bronze weapons were introduced into Egypt by the	Hyksos	16
10808861624	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
10808861625	The Egyptians were the most imperialistic during the	New Kingdom	18
10808861626	During the eighth century B.C.E. Egypt fell under the control of the ______ for around a century	Kushites	19
10808861627	Around 760 B.C.E. the Kushite King Kashta	founded a dynasty that ruled Egypt for around a hundred years	20
10808861628	In the mid-seventh century B.C.E. Egypt lost its independence and became a part of	the Assyrian empire	21
10808861629	The conqueror Menes founded ______ around 3100 B.C.E., a city that would serve as the capital for early Egypt	Memphis	22
10808861630	Hatshepsut was	the first woman to rule Egypt as pharaoh	23
10808861631	In which of the following societies did women enjoy the most freedom and opportunity	Egypt	24
10808861632	In Kush	there is evidence for many female rulers	25
10808861633	A kandake was	a female regent in Kush	26
10808861634	In Africa, iron metallurgy	arose independently	27
10808861635	The Egyptians traded through the Red Sea with a land they called Punt, which is probably	modern day Somalia	28
10808861636	The Greek words meaning "holy inscriptions" refers to	hieroglyphics	29
10808861637	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
10808861638	Meroitic writing	was a Nubian script that borrowed Egyptian hieroglyphics	31
10808861639	The cult of Amon-Re	was a combination of the Egyptian air and sun gods	32
10808861640	The cult of Amon-Re is the best example of	how the Egyptians associated various gods with each other	33
10808861641	What Pharaoh tried, unsuccessfully, to transform Egypt into a monotheistic society	Akhenaton	34
10808861642	Besides the Hebrews, the only other example of monotheism from the ancient world occurred during the reign of	Akhenaton	35
10808861643	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
10808861644	The Egyptian god of the underworld was	Osiris	37
10808861645	Osiris judged whether or not souls were worthy for immortality by	weighing their hearts against a feather symbolizing justice	38
10808861646	During the Old Kingdom	only the pharaohs received the honor of mummification	39
10808861647	The Bantu originally came from around	Modern day Nigeria	40
10808861648	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
10808861649	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
10808861650	The Bantu probably began their migrations because of	population pressures	43
10808861651	By the middle of the first millenium B.C.E. the Bantu people had begun to produce	iron	44