Chapter 5 Flashcards
What is the second largest continent?
Africa
What connects Africa to Asia?
Isthmus of Suez
What is the world’s largest desert
Sahara desert
What is the world’s longest river
Nile
What is the most ancient name for Egypt
Mizraim
What does the Bible call Egypt?
The land of Ham
Name for ancient Egyptians
Copts
Because of its cultural diffusion, what is Egypt called
“The seabed of African cultures”
Because of its rich and fertile soil, what did the ancient Egyptians call their land?
Kemet meaning “black”
What were the small states that Egypt consisted of?
Nomes
What were the strong rulers of Egypt called
Pharaohs
How does the Nile River flow
From south to north
What were he two nomes in Egypt
Lower Egypt
Upper Egypt
Who United Lower and Upper Egypt?
Menes
Who became the first pharaoh of all Egypt?
Menes
When was the Egypt the greatest and most magnificent power of of the ancient world?
At the time of the Exodus of the Hebrews
Who called Egypt “the gift of the Nile”?
Herodotus
Rich alluvial plain of fertile soil formed by the Nile
Nile Delta
Language of ancient Egypt that has about 700 characters
Hieroglyphics
A book of prayers and incantations which was placed in tombs to protect the spirits of the dead in Egypt
Book of the Dead
What was the most important Egyptian work
Book of the Dead
What were the two most important Egyptian capital cities
Memphis and Thebes
Word meaning “city of the dead”
Necropolis
Broken slab of black basalt fount by Napoleon and his men near the town or Rosetta
Rosetta Stone
Which languages was the Rosetta Stone written in
Hieroglyphics, demotic, and Greek
Frenchmen that was one of the people that deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone
Champollion
Structure that best symbolizes the Egyptian conception of state and society
Pyramid
Who was at the bottom of the pyramid?
The masses
Which class of people was at the sides of the pyramid?
The priests and officials of pharaoh
How were the Egyptians in their religious faith?
Humanists
Naturalists
Polytheistic
“Houses of eternity”
Great Pyramid of Cheops
A teenage Pharaoh who died at the age of 18
Tutankhamen
The preservation of the bodies of the dead
Mummification
What best symbolized the social order in Egypt
The pyramid
What was the most important thing for boys to study in Egypt
Reading and writing
Ancient Egyptian history is usually divided into how many dynasties?
30 dynasties
During what time did the Egyptians achieve their greatest accomplishments in art and architecture?
The Old Kingdom
Who were the three outstanding monarchs of the Old Kingdom?
Khufu (Cheops)
Khafre
Menkaure
What did Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure build?
The three largest pyramids at Giza
A sculpture with the head of a man and the body of a lion
The Great Sphinx
Which pharaoh does the Great Sphinx depict
Khafre
Who paved the way of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and the Twelfth Dynasty
King Mentuhotep I
What is the biblical theory about the Middle Kingdom of Egypt
Some people think that it was during the Eleventh or early Twelfth Dynasty that Abram and his family entered Egypt in search of food
Asiatic warriors that ravaged Egypt and brought the Middle Kingdom to an end
Hyksos
Word meaning ‘shepherd kings’ or ‘rulers of foreign countries’
Hyksos
Theban prince who founded the New Kingdom
Ahmose I
What did Ahmose I do to the Hebrews? Why?
He oppressed and persecuted them because they were Semites like the Hyksos
Who might have been Moses’s foster mother?
Hatshepsut
a female pharaoh that ruled jointly with her nephew Thutmose III for about 20 years
Hatshepsut
What is another name for the New Kingdom?
Egyptian Empire
Pharaoh that extended Egypt’s borders to their farthest extent and brought the Egyptian empire to its greatest height
Thutmose III
Son of Thutmose III who may behave been pharaoh during the Hebrew exodus
Amenhotep II
Who was the most outstanding monarch of the Last New Kingdom?
Ramses II
What became the most important city in Alexander’s empire
Alexandria
It was in what city the ……… Testament was translated into the …….. language
Alexandria; Old Testament; Greek language
Who gained control of Egypt after Alexander the Great’s death? What dynasty did he establish?
Ptolemy; Hellenistic (Greek) dynasty
Name for the Greek Old Testament
Septuagint
The Great Pyramid of Giza represents which three pharaohs
Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure
What are the four Kingdoms of Egypt
The Old Kingdom
The Middle Kingdom
The New Kingdom
The Last New Kingdom
