Emergence Of Egytpian State And Old Kingdom

Question 1

What is the name of the Nubian desert settlement and where is it?

Answer 1

Nabta Plata, Naqada

Question 2

What type of pottery is found in the old kingdom?

Answer 2

4000-3000, Naqada I-III.

Question 3

Where was the first mummy found?

Answer 3

Hierakonpolis

Question 4

What were temples made of and what did they represent? (3)

Answer 4

Organic materials, represent gods presence and hierarchy

Question 5

When does namer unify Egypt?

Answer 5

3000

Question 6

When is the Narmer Palette?

Answer 6

3080-3040

Question 7

What are the achievements of the first and second dynasties? Which academics talk about this?(5)

Answer 7

• expanded political authority (Hassan)
• long distance trade (Hoffman)
• social complexity (Bard)
• Hydraulic agriculture and surpluses (Herodotus, Butzer)
• writing (hieroglyphic and hieratic scripts)

Question 8

Academic opinions of the old kingdom and the rise of the state

Answer 8

Midant-Reynes - asiatic people installed pharaonic state
-different burial cultures found
-black top red ware
-power in beard transferred to pharaonic culture
Bard
-exotic and raw materials = status symbol
-increased use of gold and lapis shows the development of hierarchy, especially in upper Egypt

Question 9

Name two types of pottery seen in the old kingdom

Answer 9

• Black-top red pottery

- Naqada pottery

Question 10

Name three important pyramid examples

Answer 10

• snofru’s 3 pyramids
• great pyramid of Giza
• khafra’s pyramid

Question 11

Name two important artefacts from the emergence of the state and the old kingdom

Answer 11

• the palette of Narmer

- sun boat of Cheops

Question 12

Name a type of temple seen in the emergence of the state and in the old kingdom

Answer 12

Sun temples