Egypt Flashcards
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Area
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- Centered around the length of the Nile river, specifically the Nile River Delta
- White and Blue River meeting
- Very marshy and not great for building in the North, more arid in the South
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Time Periods
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- Predynastic
- Early Dynastic
- Old Kingdom
- Middle Kingdom
- New Kingdom
- Last Period
- Ptolemaic Period
- 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Intermediate Periods
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Predynastic Period
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- Paleolithic to Neolithic
- Most evidence from this period comes from Upper Egypt due to flooding in Lower Egypt
- Naqada III Period
- King Narmer
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Naqada III Period
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- Major influence from Mesopotamia
- 3 major city kingdoms: Thinis, Naqada, Nekhen
- The kings of these cities were known as the Scorpion Kings
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King Narmer
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- First King of unified Egypt
- Gained Upper Egypt by marrying princess Neithhotep
- Conquered Lower Egypt
- Narmer plate contains some of the oldest hieroglyphs
- Rule was symbolized by a combined crown which contained the crowns o both upper and lower Egypt
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Early Dynastic Period - Dynasties, material culture, capital city, burial method
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- 1st and 2nd Dynasties
- People began to consider Kings Gods (Divine Kingship)
- We have found material culture in the form of Calendars, writing, science, and art
- Capital city was Memphis
- Royalty was buried in Mastaba tombs
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Old Kingdom
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- “Age of the Pyramids”
- 4th to 6th dynasties
- Records only in the form of hieroglyphs in monumental architecture
- Nomes
- Frontality and hierarchy scale
- Kingdom ended because Pepi II left no clear line of succession
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Pyramids
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- Pyramids were built to look like the rays of the setting sun
- Djoser Step Pyramid (first)
- Bent Pyramid (bent)
- Great Pyramid of Giza (big)
- Pyramid of Khafre (sphinx)
- Pyramid of Menkaure (small)
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Djoser Step Pyramid
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- The first pyramid built
- Looked like multiple mastaba tombs stacked together
- Made of mud brick and stone
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Bent Pyramid
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- Owned by King Snefuru
- Appears bent from certain angles
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Great Pyramid of Giza
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- The largest of the Pyramids
- Built by Khufu, Snefuru’s son
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Pyramid of Khafre
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- Built at the same time the Sphinx were carved
- Built for Khafre, Khufu’s son
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Pyramid of Menkaure
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- Smallest of the pyramids
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First Intermediate Period
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- Considered a dark time
- No centralized power
- Kings had only symbolic power
- Little monumental architecture
- Egypt divided into Upper and Lower
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Middle Kingdom
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- Classical Age, the height of civilization at the time
- Upper and Lower Kingdoms reunited
- Art and architecture became more varied and personalized, depicting more scenes of everyday life
- Largest monumental architecture was the temple to Amun in Karnak