Egypt Flashcards
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What is Egypt centered around?
Nile River Valley
Egypt is centered around the
Nile River Valley
What does the Nile River do at the same time every year?
Floods
What beneficial thing does quading leave every year?
Fertilizing sIlt
What about the floods was associated with their gods?
Predictability
What geological feature divides the Nile and creates rapids?
The Cataracts
What does the first cataract mark Upper Egypt?
Southern borders
Which way does the Nile flow?
North
What is Egypt protected by to the east and west?
Deserts
When did the Old Kingdom take place?
2700- 2200 BCE
What was the Old Kingdom also called?
Pyramid age
Who built tombs that would last for eternity?
Pharaohs
When Pharaoh’s took the throne what usually started?
Building
What were the hieroglyphics based on?
Samaritan script pictogrphic
When did the Middle Kingdom takes place?
2050 - 1800 bce
Who stored prosperity and stability?
Pharaohs
Who did the Egyptians trade with?
Nubians
What of the two people began to mix?
Cultures
What did the Egyptian Army eventually occupied?
Nubia
What court allows more people to enter the afterlife?
Cult of gsiris
But was there more of due to drainage projects?
Arable land
When did the New Kingdom taked place?
1550 - 1100 b c e
Large Empires reach what river?
The Euphrates River
More contact with other?
Civilization
The first known what was signed with the Hittites?
Peace treaty
Who did New leaders drive out and what did it result in?
Hyksos and pharaoh
Egypt is United by
Upper and lower Egypt
In Egypt who has strong central Authority and has absolute power?
Pharaohs
Who the chief minister who supervise day-to-day government
Vizier
What were the locals name?
Nomarchs
What storage due to crop failures and what?
Food and drought
What has cost a lot in Egypt
Pyramid
Who adopted Egyptian customs and beliefs
Hyksos
Who was the first female pharaoh who encouraged trade?
Hatshepsut
Who was the first monotheist and husband of Nefertiti?
akteaaton/Amonhoteplv
It’s a famous tomb
King Tuts tomb
He was very powerful and ruled for 67 years and defeated the Hittites
Ramses 2
Power decline after who died?
Ramses 2
Who conquered Egypt?
See people Hyksos Persians and Greeks
