Ancient Egypt Documentary - Complete History - 8000 B.C. to 30 B.C. Part 1 Flashcards
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egypt
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- unpredictable flooding of Nile and harsh weather
- people believed order, not chaos, was the will of the gods
- around 300 BC, Manetho began compiling the first complete history of Egypt
- Seti built a temple in Abaydos for the god Osiris
- 30 royal dynasties
- made calendar that models the one we use today
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Sahara
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- used to have seasonal lakes around 8000 BC
- seasonal tropical rain shifted north from Africa
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stones
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- stones arranged in such a way that acts as a calendar
- also around burial sites
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5000 BC
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- summer monsoons shifted south again
- lakes dried up and settlers headed east towards the Nile
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4000-3000 BC
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- two powerful kinds emerged
- lower and upper Egypt
- eventually unified
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Buto
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- pots are less sophisticated
- Buto was a cobra-goddess whose original home and cult center was in the Delta of the Nile at Per-Uatchit.
- by 3200 BC Upper and Lower Egypt became one
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palette of Narmer
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- may depict the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
- first king, Menes
- bloody conquest
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Abydos
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- final resting place of Osiris (god of the dead)
- many broken pots everywhere
- tombs of king from dynasty 0, system of writing found (before Mesopotamia)
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Memphis
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- capital between Upper and Lower Egypt once unified
- 3000 years
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Nile
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- haunted Egyptians through their history
- put power in one man and the gods
- vested king with absolute power and worshiped him as a god
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great pyramid
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- 4000 years it was tallest man made monument
- 3,000,000 blocks of limestone
- helped with journey into afterlife
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Mastaba
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- used chiefly for nonroyal burials
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Valley of the Kings
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- 30 pharaohs
- many texts suggesting immortality
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25th century
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- 5 kings reigned for half a century
- Kushites started a new reign of pyramid building
- pyramids more steep and flat on top
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Hyksos
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- more advanced military
- horse drawn chariots
