Egypt New Kingdom Flashcards
Polytheistic
Lots of gods
Did Egyptians have as separate weird for religion? Why not?
No
Religion was essential to everything
Important gods
Osiris Isis Horus Set Sober
Osiris
Ressurection
Underworld
Isis
Sister/wife to Osiris
Pieces Osiris’s body back together
Motherhood/love
Horus
Isis/Osiris’s son
Fought Set after fathers death
Pharoah was seen as embodiment of Horus
Set
Osiris’s brother
Killed Osiris– cut him into 14 pieces
New Kingdom Achievements
Monumental architecture Military victories Geometry 365 day calendar Medical discoveries derived from embalming
Monumental architecture
Tombs cut in the side if chiffs very popular
Military victories(. ) use of …
Kadesh
Use of chariot warfare
Geometry
Calculating area and volume
Medical discoveries
Splints
Treating fractures
Wounds
Egyptian afterlife can be …… Or …… Based on what?
Good or bad
Based on actions
Afterlife kind of like
Karma
Death was …………. To Egypt
Highly important
Not like —— afterlife
Sumerian
HCode and BoD
Don’t steal from the gods
Murder
Assault
Oust
Kick out
Those upper Egyptians who oust the Hyksos are the first
New Kingdom Pharoahs
New Kingdom still run by a
Pharoah
New Kingdom more ————— than Middle Kingdom
Militaristic/expansionist
New kingdom Pharoahs conquer territory from Egypt from —- to the ——–
Libya
Euphrates river