Ancient Egypt Flashcards
What did hieroglyphics help Egyptian scribes to do?
Keep Records of Taxes
What did Egyptian farmers use irrigation to do?
Water their crops
What happened to Napatan rule of Egypt?
The rulers were forced back to Nubia
Why was Nubia called the “land of the bow” by the Egyptians?
Nubian were skilled archers
The ankh is the Egyptian symbol for what?
Life
Who ordered the construction of the Great Pyramid?
Khufu
Who unified Egypt by overthrowing the king of Lower Egypt and became the first pharaoh?
Menes
Who organized a two-year expedition to Punt, expanding trade beyond the Egyptian empire?
Hatshepsut
Who ruled as a poor young pharaoh from about age 9 to 19?
Tutankhamun
Who was the builder of Abu Simbel; pharaoh of Moses?
Rameses II
How did the Nile River affect ancient Egyptian life?
By creating rich farmland in the river valley
In 5000 B.C. where did farming communities appear?
Egypt and Nubia
Who did Egyptian rulers rule with absolute power over?
All Egyptians
What happened to the government toward the end of the Old Kingdom?
Weak and divided
How did religion play an important in Egyptian life?
Explaining natural events to the people
How did the ancient Egyptians demonstrate their belief in the life after death?
They preserved the bodies of their dead
What social class in Ancient Egypt did most of the people belong to?
Peasants
Why did the Ancient Egyptian astronomers study the stars?
To predict the flooding of the Nile River
What happened when Nubians took control of trade routes by using iron weapons?
Meroë became rich
What did Egypt have because of its location on the Nile River?
Rich Farmland
What was the greatest achievement of the pharaoh Menes?
He United Upper and Lower Egypt
How did Egyptian rulers govern their empire?
They maintained absolute power over the people.
What was a very important religious practice in Ancient Egypt?
To prepare the dead for the afterlife
What did ancient Egyptians do to keep track of the kingdom’s growing wealth?
They used hieroglyphs.
What was Nubia because of its location between Egypt and Central Africa?
A center of trade
How was society set up in Egypt?
- priests, nobles
- merchants, craftsmen
- many farmers, laborers
- slaves, POW’s
What were the symbols for writing called?
Hieroglyphs
On what did the Egyptian scribes eventually write?
Papyrus
When the picture writing was figured out, what was the key to that decoding?
Rosetta Stone
What was studied in science and medicine?
- cut stone for pyramids
- closely related to religion, medicine made out of herbs
Who finally broke the code of the picture writing?
Jean Francios Champollion
What was the new Egyptian writing called?
Demotic