Egypt

Question 1

How long is the Nile?

Answer 1

4,000 miles

Question 2

“Kemet”

Answer 2

“the black land”- fertile area

Question 3

“Desheret”

Answer 3

“the red land”-desert

Question 4

What do they consider kings before dynasty 1

Answer 4

Dynasty 0

Question 5

How many Dynasties were there?

Answer 5

31

Question 6

What is one dynasty?

Answer 6

1 family

Question 7

Manetho

Answer 7

Egyptian preist; divided history into dynasties

Question 8

Kingdom

Answer 8

period of great stability; strong central gov; prosperity

Question 9

intermediate period

Answer 9

less stable; decentralized gov; less prosperous

Question 10

Dates of predynastic egypt

Answer 10

5000-3000

Question 11

When was Dynasty 0?

Answer 11

3000

Question 12

what happened during Dynasty 0?

Answer 12

Menes/Narmer united Upper and Lower Egypt

Question 13

What culture over took the other when Egypt united?

Answer 13

Upper(south) overtook lower

Question 14

First capital of Egypt

Answer 14

Hierakonopolis

Question 15

Oldest found temple

Answer 15

Temple of Horus

Question 16

What was the significance of make-up plates?

Answer 16

Everyone used them, and elaborate ones were buried with kings

Question 17

What was the Palette of Narmer?

Answer 17

a make-up plate

Question 18

What was on the Palette of Narmer?

Answer 18

Narmer smiting a lower Egyptian, people running away, defeated enemies, Hathor the cow goddess

Question 19

What were the first royal tombs?

Answer 19

pit graves

Question 20

What did pit graves evolve to?

Answer 20

Mastabas

Question 21

What did mastabas evolve to?

Answer 21

Step pyramids

Question 22

When was early dynastic egypt?

Answer 22

3000-2650

Question 23

When did kings have the most power?

Answer 23

Dynasties 1-2

Question 24

Where was a new capital est. in the early dynasties?

Answer 24

Memphis

Question 25

Hieroglyphics

Answer 25

sacred writing

Question 26

Which developed first, cuneiform or hieroglyphics?

Answer 26

cuneiform

Question 27

What were the two main concerns with burying the dead?

Answer 27

To protect them and for their gifts to last forever

Question 28

Royal Cemetery at Abydos

Answer 28

pit graves; Dynasties 1-2; Narmer's grave;

Question 29

Djer's tomb

Answer 29

Human sacrifices; misidentified as tomb of Osiris by later Egyptians

Question 30

When does human sacrifice die out?

Answer 30

3rd Dynasty

Question 31

When was the Old Kingdom?

Answer 31

2650-2100

Question 32

Why were early Kings so powerful?

Answer 32

People believed they were fully divine

Question 33

Important Old Kingdom Kings

Answer 33

Djoser, Menes, Khafre, Menkaure

Question 34

Nome

Answer 34

state

Question 35

nomarch

Answer 35

governor

Question 36

where were OK kings buried?

Answer 36

Giza

Question 37

Why did the Old Kingdom collapse?

Answer 37

Ag problems, succession problems

Question 38

Tomb of Djoser

Answer 38

1st step pyramid

Question 39

Imhotep

Answer 39

architect of tomb of Djoser

Question 40

Where were the first columns found?

Answer 40

The tomb of Djoser

Question 41

Funerary chapel

Answer 41

Where priests pray by tombs

Question 42

Ka

Answer 42

life force

Question 43

Ba

Answer 43

soul

Question 44

Ka statue

Answer 44

back up body; stone, no protruding limbs

Question 45

Significance of Tomb of Djoser

Answer 45

First royal funerary monument 1st 100% stone 1st columns 1st moulding Unification of Egypt theme Implication of Human Labor

Question 46

How did kings get human labor?

Answer 46

conscripted workers

Question 47

How were conscripted workers treated?

Answer 47

Paid well, buried well, fed well

Question 48

What dynasty were the great pyramids?

Answer 48

4

Question 49

How many pyramids?

Answer 49

3

Question 50

Whose pyramids?

Answer 50

Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure

Question 51

Why did the pyramids get smaller?

Answer 51

Less funds and power

Question 52

Pyramid of Khufu

Answer 52

biggest, complex, secret chambers

Question 53

What was Khufu's burial chamber like?

Answer 53

simple and ruined

Question 54

Significance of the ships in front of Khufu's pyramid.

Answer 54

take people to afterlife, pull the sun

Question 55

What were smaller pyramids for?

Answer 55

Queens

Question 56

Khafre

Answer 56

Khufu's sone, smaller pyramid, many statues of himself

Question 57

Who built the sphinx

Answer 57

Khafre

Question 58

Who were the laborers who built the pyramids

Answer 58

peasant farmers

Question 59

what percentage of the population built the pyramids

Answer 59

1%

Question 60

How many workers built the pyramids?

Answer 60

20,000

Question 61

Menkaure

Answer 61

Khafre's son, pyramid; had statues of him and his queen/goddess as equals

Question 62

What were the statues of scribes like?

Answer 62

non-muscular, seated

Question 63

When was the 1st Intermediate Period?

Answer 63

2100-2000

Question 64

What dynastied were included in the 1st IP?

Answer 64

7-11

Question 65

When was the MIddle Kingdom?

Answer 65

2000-1650

Question 66

What dynasties were included in the MK?

Answer 66

11-13

Question 67

King Montuhotep

Answer 67

Reunified south and returned central gov after the 1st IP

Question 68

Theban sun god

Answer 68

Amun

Question 69

What was in Nubia?

Answer 69

Gold and animals

Question 70

When was the 2nd IP?

Answer 70

1650-1500

Question 71

What dynasties were included in the 2nd IP?

Answer 71

13-17

Question 72

How many kings were in the 100ish years of the 2nd IP?

Answer 72

70

Question 73

Who takes over Egypt during the 2nd IP?

Answer 73

Hyksos

Question 74

What were the benefits of the Hyksos taking over?

Answer 74

They brought the horse, wheel, and military equiptment

Question 75

When was the NK?

Answer 75

1500-1100

Question 76

What Dynasties were included in the NK?

Answer 76

18-20

Question 77

What brings in the era of the NK?

Answer 77

Ahmose drives the Kyksos away and conquers Nubia

Question 78

What was the wealthiest Kingdom?

Answer 78

New

Question 79

When did the term pharoah start being used?

Answer 79

New Kingdom

Question 80

"Pharoah"

Answer 80

"great house"

Question 81

Hatshepsut

Answer 81

Queen, built many temples, depicts herself as a man in her statues

Question 82

Thutmose III

Answer 82

Made the 1st Egyptian empire

Question 83

When Amarna Revolution?

Answer 83

1390-1350

Question 84

What was the Amarna revolution?

Answer 84

Akhenaten and Nefertiti move the capital to Armana and start the cult of Aten.

Question 85

Akhenaten

Answer 85

King, head priest of Aten, outlaws other gods

Question 86

Nefertiti

Answer 86

Wife of Akhentanten; priestess

Question 87

henatheistic

Answer 87

believe in one diety but don't deny the existance of others

Question 88

Why did the kings bring the cult of Aten to power?

Answer 88

To curb the power of the priests of Amun

Question 89

Tutenkhamen

Answer 89

returns capital to Thebes, restores old order, king at age 12

Question 90

Ramesside Period

Answer 90

regain empire, army of 100,000

Question 91

Battle of Qadesh (1274)

Answer 91

keeps Hittites in check, stalemate, but Ramses II says he won, peace treaty

Question 92

Ramses II

Answer 92

Ramses the Great, regains empire

Question 93

Who had a huge statue made of himself

Answer 93

Ramses II

Question 94

When was the 3rd IP?

Answer 94

1100-700

Question 95

What Dynasties were the 3rd IP?

Answer 95

21-25

Question 96

What happens during the 3rd IP?

Answer 96

Egypt is divided: kings rule south, priests rule north They are conquered by Nubia

Question 97

When was the Late Period Period?

Answer 97

700-332

Question 98

What dynasties were the LPP?

Answer 98

25-31

Question 99

Who rules Egypt during the LPP?

Answer 99

Kushites/ Nubians & Persians

Question 100

When was the last native Egyptian rule?

Answer 100

525, ended by Persians

Question 101

When was the Graco-Roman Period?

Answer 101

332-395