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Egypts river

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Nile

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Egypt is in

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South Africa

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Ancient Greek historian

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Herodotus

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Rich & irritagated land of Egypt

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Black Land

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Sunbaked desert in Eqypt

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Red Land

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Farmers us the Nile Valley’s soil for

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Wheat & Flax

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What is Flax

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Pant whose fibers were used 4 clothes

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Where did the Nile rise

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Highlands of Ethiopia
Lakes of Central Africa

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Upper Egypt was in the

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South

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Lower Egypt was in the

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North

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Upper Egypt stretched from

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Nile’s waterfall to Mediterranean Sea

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Lower Egypt stretched from

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Delta region to Where Nile emptied in Med Sea

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triangular area of marshland formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers

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Delta

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Which king united the 2 regions of Egypt

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Menes

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King made the capital

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Memphis

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3 periods

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Old Kingdom, middle Kingdom, new Kingdom

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Ruling family

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Dynasty

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Egyptian ruler with unlimited power that were thought to become gods at death

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Pharaohs

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Pharaohs maintained

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Justice and order

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Chief minister

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Viziers

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Wise vizier who trained official

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Ptah-hotep

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where deceased spent afterlife

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Tombs

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Places that took yrs to built preparing to bury the pharaohs tomb

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Pyramids suggested ancient Egyptian civilization’s ____

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Gold rich land to the south
Nubia(kush)
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Invaders w/ horse chariots
Hyksos
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Woman who declared herself as pharaoh
Hatshepsut
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Hatshepsuts step son who expanded Egypt greatly
Thutmose III
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Conquered syria, pushed control northward, defeated Hittites
Ramses II
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Egypt signed a peace treaty with the
Hittites
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Chief sun god
Amon-Re
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Egypt’s government was a
Theocracy
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Theocracy
Religion & government intertwined p
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Gods of the dead and flooding of Nile
Osiris & Isis
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Spells charms magic 4 souls in afterlife
Book of the Dead
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Preserved corpses for afterlife
Mummification
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Where were new kingdom pharaoh buried
Valley of the Kings
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This tomb wasn’t robbed
King Tut
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King tut’s stuff is in
Cairo Egypt museum
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Serves god Aton and not Amon-Re
Akhenaton
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Akhenaton and his wife ___ tried to rid of other gods
Nefertiti
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Egypt society order
Pharaohs —— high priest(esses) —- nobles —- merchants —— scribes & artisans —— peasants/farmers
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Brought riches to Egypt
Trade
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Rights of women accorded to Ramses II
may walk whenever she please no one may deny her
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Women couldn’t become _____ bcuz they couldn’t ____
Scribes/govt officials Read/write
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Symbols 4 objects/concepts/sounds
Hieroglyphics
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2 writings developed by Egyptians
Hieratics + demotic
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Paper mad from plant —
Papyrus
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In charge of record keeping
Scribes
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Document translating hieroglyphics
Rosetta Stone
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Adv cities of Egypt
Memphis, kush, Cairo, yebu, Thebes, edfu
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Adv tech
Medicine, cures, surgery, astronomy, geometry, calendars, dikes, dams, irrigation systems, pyramids mummification
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Specialized workers
Scribes, Doctors, artisans, engineers, musicians, farmers
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Record keeping
Cave art/writing, Rosetta Stone, papyrus, hieroglyphics, jewelry “Book of the dead”
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Complex institutions
Pharaohs, polytheism, theocracy, viziers
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Lion/human pharaoh
Sphinx
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Sphinx location
Great Pyramids in Giza

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