Chapter 19: The Battle for Reunification

Question 1

Achthoes/Akhtoy I

Answer 1

The king that founded the Ninth Dynasty. He began the royal line and ruled all of Egypt from Herakleopolis, farther south.

Question 2

Amenemhet I

Answer 2

The third king of the Middle kingdom, and the first king of Dynasty Twelve. A southerner by birth, he immediately but himself into the line of great unifiers by building himself a brand new capital city.

Question 3

Itj-taway

Answer 3

Amenemhet I’s name of his new city 20 miles south of Memphis. It means Seizer of the Two Lands.

Question 4

Mentuhotep

Answer 4

He was named after the Theban god of war. He spent the first twenty years of his reign fighting his way north into Lower Egypt.

Question 5

Nomarch

Answer 5

They were the semi-oldstated rulers of Ancient Egyptian provinces. Serving as provincial governors, they each held authority over one of the 42 nomes

Question 6

Nome

Answer 6

it is the Greek term for the forty two provinces of ancient Egypt