WH Ch 5 Flashcards
What is the home of the world’s largest desert
Egypt
what is the world’s largest desert
sahara
small states in early egyptain history
Nomes
strong rulers of nomes
pharos
United upper and lower egypt to rule as one pharoh
menes
egypts main nickname
gift of the nile
Longest river in the world
nile
who gave egypt its nicknames
Herodotus
what two things gave life/structure to egypt
water and papyrus palnts
triangle shaped area of land in north egypt where most early settlements were found
nile delta
written language of egypt
hieroglyphics
used the rosette stone to interperate heiroglyphics
Jean Francis Champollion
2 capitals of egypt
memphis and thebes
Graduates of scribal schools in egypt could recieve what type of jobs
political or religous
What three things did the egyptians believe in
Humanism,naturalism,and polytheism
The Egyptians achieved their greatest accomplishments in art and architecture during what
Old kingdom
The three outstanding monarchs of the Old Kingdom
Khufu (Cheops), Khafre, and Menkaure
the head of a man and the body of a lion
Great Sphinx
reunited the two lands and paved the way for the Middle Kingdom
King Mentuhotep I
Asiatic warriors that ravaged egypt
Hyksos
The prince who founded the New Kingdom
Ahmose I
Moses’ foster mother
Hatshepsut
ruled as pharaoh jointly with her nephew Thutmose III for about 20 years.
Hatshepsut
extended Egypt’s borders to their farthest extent and brought the Egyptian Empire to its greatest height
Thutmose III
may have been pharaoh during the Hebrew exodus
Amenhotep II
most outstanding monarch
Ramses II
became the most important city in Alexander’s empire
Alexandria
gained control of Egypt and established a Hellenistic (Greek) dynasty that ruled until Cleopatra’s suicide and the Roman conquest in 30 B.C
Ptolemy
became the center of Egyptian life and one of the great cities of the Arab world
Cario
