Chapter 9: The First Civil War

Question 1

2890 BC

Answer 1

This is around the time the Second Dynasty started. Also, this is when a civil war broke out and raged for years.

Question 2

Abydos

Answer 2

This was the burial land where the rulers of the First Dynasty were buried after death. It was located far to the south of Memphis.

Question 3

Djer

Answer 3

He was the third king of the first dynasty of Egypt. He sent Egyptians soldiers out on the first official expeditions past the borders of Narmer’s kingdom.

Question 4

Horus

Answer 4

He is the son of Osiris, he was the king of the living, he was associated with the sun, the stars and the moon

Question 5

Khasekhem

Answer 5

He was a worshiper of the god Horus. After Sekemib died he came to the throne and took up the sword.

Question 6

Osiris

Answer 6

He is the god that was given the rule of the entire earth. After being killed by his brother Set, he was half-resurrected by his wife, and he and his wife had a baby they named Horus.

Question 7

Saqqara

Answer 7

This area is a high-desert plain, just west of Memphis. This is where Egyptian noblemen (society’s second rank) were buried after death.

Question 8

Shabaka Stone

Answer 8

This is where the theological underpinning for the king’s power are laid out. The story it bears is thought to go all the way back to the earliest Egyptian dynasties.