ss Flashcards
vizier
idealized image
the pharoh is perfect
pharoh
head of pyramid
ma’at
cosmic balance/order that the concept is the pharoh is the human version of God, meaning if you please the pharoh the life will be more in balance and peace.
Rosetta stone
A list where it said the same thing in three different languages. Key to decifering herogliphucs
Hyksos
A group if snetic people from the levant. Middle eastern. Take over egypt. Invasion. They had a drought and had a beed of water so it caused then to move over. They didnt really change anything in egypt they just inserted themselves.
Nubians
South egypt black afticans they took ofer egypt they didnt change anything.they traded and were at war with egyptans and were familiar with eachother. Cuktural diffusion
The nile
Egypt the gift of the Nile it provided fertility to the region predicted flooding made it easy to grow things. Much less work than Mesopotamia. It’s calm
Basin irrigation
Helped growing food
What’s different with the nile
It flows from south to north
Periods of weak central authority
Intermediate periods Egyptian period history is divided into three kingdons and they represent good trouble of Egypt like the pyramids. Problems in succession, border problems , financial problems,
Narmer
Collection of city states it becomes 2 diffferent areas and he united the 2 to make a singular Egypt. Lower and upper united
Natural barriers
Egypt is well protected by natural barriers and that’s why it had lasted and it’s a continuous civiliazation and they keep outsiders out
Diety
God or goddess religion is super important to Egyptians pyramid which is a tomb to hold pharaohs
Mummifications
Part of passage into afterlife
