Egypt -2

Question 1

The Hyksos

Answer 1

Powerful warriors which had a great technology, including horses and chariots. They ruled for 100 years and they came from Asia/west. 

Question 2

Hatshepsut

Answer 2

Queen of Egypt, which had to prove herself because she was a woman came to power in 1473 BCE after her death and nephews tried to erase her from history she died in 1458

Question 3

Why was the middle kingdom a“ gold age”

Answer 3

It was a period of peace which architecture, literature, and art florist

Question 4

Why was the new kingdom a unique. In ancient Egypt history

Answer 4

Because it had a woman leader, a.k.a. Hatshepsut

Question 5

During the middle Kingdom. Egypt gained control of which countries.

Answer 5

Nearby and parts of Syria

Question 6

Pharaoh’s make great improvements doing what

Answer 6

Adding land to increase crops production in ordering a canal built between the Nile river and the Red Sea during the Middle Kingdom

Question 7

What flourish during the middle Kingdom?

Answer 7

Art and architecture

Question 8

In what time period did the middle kingdom weaken and who gained control

Answer 8

1600s BCE and Hyksos gained temporary control of Egypt 

Question 9

During the new kingdom, what did Egypt do?

Answer 9

Prosper through trade gained lands to conquest in reach the heights of its power

Question 10

During Hatshepsut’s region Egyptian’s traveled to where, why and what did they encounter?

Answer 10

Arabia, east, Africa, and the East Coast of the Mediterranean Sea to trade, encountered Phoenicians

Question 11

After Hatshepsut’s death, who became pharaoh and what did they do?

Answer 11

Thutmos the third and he expanded Egypt’s control 

Question 12

Envoyers

Answer 12

Government representatives to another country
Example one of the bureaucrats goes to another empire and tells the ruler that they want to have a peace treaty

Question 13

Who is hatshepsuts niece

Answer 13

Thutmose the third

Question 14

Authority

Answer 14

The right what power to give orders make decisions or control people; power or the thoughts, opinions and behaviors 

Question 15

How did two unusual pharaohs change ancient Egypt history 

Answer 15

A change in religion, priest power.
And Tutankhamen what is young and he re-did what Amunhote did and made them polytheistic again

Question 16

How long was Tutankhamen king and how many artifacts did they find in his tomb

Answer 16

9 years and they found 5000 artifacts in his tomb

Question 17

Name some Pharaohs in the new kingdom

Answer 17

Hatshepsut,Amenhotle, and Tutankhamen,Thutmose the third

Question 18

What did amenhotep change about the Egyptian beliefs and why

Answer 18

To limit the power of the Egyptian priests he instituted a religion based on the worship of only one god the son god; however, most Egyptians rejected the new religion

Question 19

When Amenhotep also known as akkenaton died what happened

Answer 19

His 10 year old sonTutankhamun became pharaoh

Question 20

The tomb of Tutankhamen a.k.a. king tut, was discovered, when and by who

Answer 20

1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carteo

Question 21

What did Amenhotep change his name to

Answer 21

Akhenaton

Question 22

I’m the Middle Kingdom what did they do instead of building pyramids and where

Answer 22

They were cut into limestone cliffs west of the Nile River

Question 23

Who drove the Hyksos out and when

Answer 23

Ahmose in 1550 BCE

Question 24

Incense

Answer 24

A material burned fits pleasant smell

Question 25

We’re did the Phoenicians live that they traded with for trees

Answer 25

East coast of the Mediterranean Sea

Question 26

We’re did thutmose the third expand to

Answer 26

North to Levant along the East cost of the mediterranean and to the Euphrates river in Mesopotamia and nubia they captured nearly 350 cities