Chapter 3-- AP World History Flashcards

10845559455	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
10845559456	Menes	Pharaoh that united the kingdoms creating the old Kingdom of Egypt	1
10845559457	Old Kingdom	built the big pyramids, royal tombs, Pharaohs were sovereign and partial gods,	2
10845559458	Khufu	largest pyramid	3
10845559459	Nubia	established a powerful kingdom with capital at Kerma	4
10845559460	Hyksos	after old kingdom Egypt was conquered by them, little is known about them but they introduced horses and chariots to Egypt	5
10845559461	New Kingdom	focuses more on the people, establishes courts, military forces, treasury, local governments agricultural affairs	6
10845559462	Tuthmosis III	He invaded Palestine and set up an unstable empire for a while	7
10845559463	Kingdom of Kush	revival happened of this kingodom, conquered Egypt and Thebes	8
10845559464	Memphis	located on the head of the Nile Delta	9
10845559465	Thebes	administrative center of Upper Egypt and several pharaohs even took the city as capital	10
10845559466	Heliopolis	city of the cult of the "sun god" Re	11
10845559467	Tanis	on Nile delta, bustling port, gateway to the Mediterranean	12
10845559468	Kerma	capital of Kush located on the Nile	13
10845559469	Napata	emerged as the new political center of Nubia on the Nile's 4th cataract	14
10845559470	Meroe	Southern on the Niles 5th or 6th cataract, presided over the flourishing kingdom o fKush	15
10845559471	Queen Hatshepsut	coruler with Tuthmosis III	16
10845559472	Bronze Metallurgy	mush slower than Mesopotamian when the Hyksos arrived they brought it	17
10845559473	Amon and Re	associated with the sun, fertility	18
10845559474	Aten	turned to monotheism during Amenhotep IV the god had with name	19
10845559475	Osiris	murder by brother saved by his loyal wife and the gods godded him controls the underworld	20
10845559476	Bantu	lived in Niger congo area with their language	21