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Ancient Egypt Flashcards

1
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capital of Egypt’s Old Kingdom located on the Nile near present-day Cairo

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Memphis

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an ancient kingdom south of Egypt

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Nubia

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flows north-east out of Lake Tana

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Blue Nile

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flows north out of Lake Victoria

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White Nile

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An ancient kingdom in northeastern Africa conquered by Egypt then later gained independence and flourished

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Kush

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The ancient capital of the Kingdom of Kush in Upper Nubia

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Kerma

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the ancient capital of the Kingdom Kush from 300B.C to A.D.300 (same numbers different timing)

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Meroe

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Egyptian pharaoh; his tomb was discovered in 1922, he was nine years old when he came into power, his name means living image of Aton, AKA Boy King, when his father died he took over, died a nineteen

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King Tut

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a group of people who ruled for about a century ( 100 years )

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Hyksos

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a king that united upper and lower Egypt, the first Pharaoh of the first dynasty

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Menes

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Extended the borders of egypt, Builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza

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Khufu

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the first person figured out how to read hieroglyphics, fingered out to decipher the Rosetta Stone

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Jean Champollion

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he drove out Kukos and reunited Egypt under Ahmose Egypt gained great power

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Pharaoh Ahmose 1

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a pharaoh who expanded Egypts boundaries in Nubia

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Amenhotep 1

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one of Egypts greatest Pharaohs, she was a girl, she sponsored most successful trading expeditions brought wealth to her land

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Hatshepsut

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he created a religion centered on Aton this figure came to be represented as a disk

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Akhenaton

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ruled for 67 years from 1304 B.C. 1237 B.C. pharaoh during the Egypt Golden age, built more monuments than any other pharaohs

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Ramses 2

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he was king of Kush, invaded Egypt and conquered the city of Memphis and Eventually all of egypt. He became their ruler in 730 B.C

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Piye

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the God of the Underworld, lord of the dead

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Osiris

20
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took care of the dead and represented the jackal

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Anubis

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the king of the deities and the father of all creation, the top guy, the sun god

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Ra

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