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Kings and historical events/monuments Flashcards

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Aha (D1)

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First King

Can be Nemes, the unifier of Egypt

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Djoser (D3)

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Steppyramid, first monumental stonebuidling made by humans

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Imhotep (D1)

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Djosers architect and later godlike, NOT A KING

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Khaba (D3)

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Layer Pyramid

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Sneferu (D4)

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The Bent pyramid, first try to a traditional Pyramid
The Red Pyramid, First Real Pyramid
Both located in Dashur

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Khufu (D4)

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The Great Pyramid of Giza, biggest Pyramid
Sunboat
Papyrus Westcar, stories about king Khufu from the 18 dynasty

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Djedefra (D4)

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Son of Ra, first to use the sungod in name

Son of Khufu

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Khafra (D4)

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Son of Khufu, has a pyramid in Giza next to his father but it is a little smaller
Sphinx of Giza

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Menkaura (D4)

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Third Pyramid in Giza

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Amenemhat I (D12)

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Was a vesir for the previous king Mentuhotep IV
Made reliefs but wrote more about himself than the king
Is the first king of the 12th dynasty
Took artistic and grave inspiration from the Old Kingdom

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Senwosret I (D12)

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son of Amenemhat
Obelisk and White Chapel in Cairo
Attacked Nubia 7 times

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Papyrus text from Illahun

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Some of the most important textual finds from the middle kingdom, texts about everything

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The Three stages of Dynasty 13

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  • First Period of short reigns
  • Second mini dynasties of the Sebekhetep and Neferhetep families
  • Third second period of short reigns
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Hyksos (FIP)

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Egyptian name of the foreign people from Asia
Great threath to Egypt
Settles in north of Egypt

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Kush (FIP)

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Group from Nubia

Threath to Egypt

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16 and 17th Dynasty

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Egypt was trapped between Hyksos and Kush Empires

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Kamoses (D17)

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Batlle against the Hyksos, last king of this dynasty

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Ahmose (D18)

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Finished the battle against the Hyksos, Theben took over the place where Hyksos were

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Amenhotep I (D18)

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Founded the workers village Deir el-Medina

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Deir el-Medina

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Workers Village in western Thebes
Worked on and made the tomb in The Vlley Of The Kings
Many Textual finds of civil people from there

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Thutmosis I (D18)

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Unified Egypt after crushing Kush made Nubia into 5 provinces
(started) Great temple of Amun in Karnak and the holy river

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Queen Hatschepsut (D18)

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Reigned for 20 years because Thutmosis III was too young
Much litterature and monumental art
Death temple on the other side of the mountain of the valley of the kings

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Thutmosis III (D18)

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Made 17 military interventions during his reign
Festivaltemple in Karnak
Tried to delete every trace of Queen Hatchepsut, his aunt that reigned with him for some time
Also did some military stuff in Nubia

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Amenhotep II (D18) not that important

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Built a temple by the Sphinx in Giza

Moved tribes around in the country

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Thutmosis IV (D18) not that important

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Dreamstele between the legs of the Sphinx
Peace during his reign
Mariied the daughter oh his enemy

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Amenhotep III (D18)

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Active diplomat, friends with Greeek and some other
Amarna Letters, first king of them
Temple in soleb
Temple in Sedeinga

27
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Akhenaten (D18)

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Privously Amenhotep IV
A temple for the Sun God
Atenism
Change the artstyle
Moves the capitalcity to Akhetaten from Thebes
Built a palace there, had open roofs
Monoteism, only one God (Aten)
Satue of Akhenaten is genderless, probably to show him as a god
Only had daughters
Queen Neferit reigned until Akhenatens right hand man Smenkharas son was old enough to become king

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Hittite Empire during the new Kingdom (Nefereti)

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Was not friendly

Took land northen Egyt during Queen Neferetis reign

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Tutankhamun (D18)

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Was the son of the right hand man and reigned after Nefereti
Famous golden mask
Died shortly After maturing

30
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Queen Ankhesenamun (D18)

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Married to Tut
Sent a letter to king Shuppiluliuma of Hittite that she did not want to marry one one of her own peasants and wanted to marry his prince
Sent the prince but got killed by Ay or Horemheb

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Shuppiluliuma

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King of the Hittite Empire
sent one of his princes to marry Queen Ankhesenamun of 18th dynasty
Prince got killed and Shuppi got mad, attacked Egypt got the black plague from prisoners and died

32
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Ay (D18)

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Military general for Tut
was king after Queen Ankhesenamun, after he probably killed the king of the Hittite empire
Reigned for 4 years

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Horemheb (D18)

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Reigned after Ay
was a military general during king Tut
Hacked out the name of Ay and Tut
Build and restored things to how they looked like before (old kingdom)

34
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Ramsess I (NOT IMPORTANT)

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Was chosen by Horemheb, was the prime minister before

Reigned for 2 years

35
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Sety I (D19)

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Restored things to like the old kingdom
Temple by Sety I in Abydos, the Abydos KingList was there
Belief of Aten was gone
Military active, wanted to take back syria/palenstine
Took over cities like Kadesh
Forced to fight againt Libya

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Ramesses II (D19)

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Called " The Great"
Fought the biggest battle, against Hittites 
Battle of Kadesh 
Battle of Dapur 
Peace agreement with the Hittites, written down in both languages 
Built a new capitalcity, Piramesse
Temple of Ptah
Dead by around 100 years 
Was idolized by the next kings
37
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Nemes - headdress

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The cloth that is under the crowns of all of the kings

38
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Merenptah (D19)

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New people settle in north of Egypt, army meets them in the western delta and fought for 6 h, kills them
Dynasty 19 implodes after this

39
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Sety II and Amenmose (D19)

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Halfbrothers and sons of Marenptah
Sety II had north and Amenmose had south
Sety II destroyed his brother
Sety IIs son was sick and could not take over the crown, only lead for 6 years until Queen Tawaret took over

40
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Ramsess III (20)

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Mass invasion of Libya
War with the sea people - sea people destroyed the Hittites
Successfully stopped the invasion of sea people

41
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Ramsess IV-XI (20)

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The rest of the kings of Dynasty 20 were all called Ramsess because of Ramsess II

42
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Dynasty 20 after Ramsess III

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Economic crash
Lots of invasions
Local civil war “The War Of the Highpriest”
Independent Theban State
Land divided after Ramsess XI death in separate states

43
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Three stages of The Third Intermediate Period

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  1. Two state Solution - co exist under 21 dynasty
  2. Libyan Period - 22 to 24 dynasty, no order
  3. Nubian Period - 25 dynasty
44
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Two state solution (D21)

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Theban and Tanis rule
Theocracy
Libyan tomb robbery in Valley of the Kings

45
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Cartouche

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The symbol that the name of the king is in

46
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Third Intermediate Period

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Very messy

47
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Esarhaddon of Assyria

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Attacked Egypt, succeeded on the second try
Thaharkha took over Egypt
Assyria attacked again and took over

48
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Tantamani and Ashubanipal of Assyria (D25)

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Tantamani was Kush and took Egypt over after Assyrias third try
Ashurbanipal of Assyria took over Egypt a third time
Assyria took over a total of 4 times

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Late Period (D26-31)

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Saitan and Persian Ruling (not together)

Last ever dynasty of Egypt

50
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Ptolemaic Period (After dynasty 31)

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The first ruler of this period was Alexander the Great
He saved Egypt from Persia (woho)
Was appointed King and son of Amun (sun god)
Alexanders closest man and his family ruled after

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