Flashcards in MIDTERM Deck (30):
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Abydos
- A capital City
- Location of the Tomb of Kings
- A center for Nagada Culture
- Royal cemetery
- A painted birth brick
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Amarna Tablets/ Letters
- written on clay tablets in cuneiform script
-Proof Egypt had a upper hand in negotiations
-Mostly from Akhenaten reign
- 400 letters
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Amenemhet 1
- Middle Kingdom reign during the 12th D
- Assassination attempt signs of political insatability
- He was a Vizier
- Pyramid of Amenenhet is ITJ Tawy
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Badarian Culture
- Neolithic Middle Egypt
- New pottery type a reddish bottom and black top
- The burials were more deliberate and elaborate with grave goods
- More farming and less hunting and fishing
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Corvee Labor
- Form of labor
- Used for taxation
- type of labor used to help build monuments
- Used for state projects
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Deir el-Medina
- South Egypt in Thebes
- Where the workers lived that were working in the valley of the kings
- cemetery for children, arranged by age
- Specialized workers lived here the state took care of their daily activities
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Democratization of the afterlife
- Royalty use to be the middle man to the afterlife
-Meant there was no difference between royalty and commoners
- By the 3rd intermediate period everyone has access to
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Dispute Between a Man and His Ba
- 1st Intermediate Period literature
- grappling with despair
- Carpe Diem theme
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Dream Stela
- Thutmose IV takes a trip
- Stops and naps in front of the Spinx
- Spinx bestows Egypt to Thut
- This dream legitimatizes his role and royalty
- Stela located between paws of the Spinx
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Harem Conspiracy
- The plot to assassinate Ramsey III
- Ramsey changed his succession his son was no longer next in line
- on papyrus
- Punishments for members in the conspiracy ranged from death to labor
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Herakleopolis
- 20th Upper Egypt nome
- Capital city during the 3rd intermediate period and and late period
- working class ceremony
- tomb 100 had plaster painted walls
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Hyksos
- Ahmose defeats Hyksos in the new Kingdom
- Used Egyptian writing systems
- Middle Hyksos period build large temples but not to the status of Egypt
- Late Hyksos increased burials
- Minoan style wall paintings ( late Hyksos period)
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Kerma Culture
- Upper Nubia
- Middle Kerma were are powerful independent state
- Ahmose campaigns against Kerma
- Tumuli shows signs of sacrificial victims
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King Scorpion
- Prodynastic, one of the earliest kings
- scorpion next to name
- tomb U-J likely his tomb located at Abydos
- One of two scorpion kings
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Manetho
- D 7-8
- " 70 kings in 70 days"
- 3rd century priest
- created a list of royal dynasties
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Memphis
- 1st IP unkwn number rulers tried to keep control
- D1 captial during the age of pyramids
- Mayors worked in memphis during NK
- Located in lower Egypt
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Nabta Playa
- neolithic
- stone in circular arrangement
- located in southern Egypt
- new ceramic type with black tops
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Nagada Culture
- 1 of the primary pre- dynastic cultural groups
- Upper Egypt
- largest settlement in the region
- beginning of monumental architecture
- Tomb 100
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Napoleonic Invasion
- Invasion mainly for military purposes in 1798
- conducted a systematic investigation to study and record Egypt
- His crew included his army along with many scholars
- Recorded many of the major monuments within a year
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Nome
- Administrative districts or provinces
- Divided in sequence with land on both sides of the river
- 22 Nomes of Upper Egypt
- Est. by 5th Dynasty
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Personal Piety
- Individual worship of Deities
- Personal Stelas are being created
- Do not need the king to act as intermediary
- Happens outside of the official temple
- after D 18
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Ptolomy I Soter
- D 33
- Given Egypt to rule
- Represents himself as a pharaoh
- Grain- based economy
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Ramesseum
- Rameses II mortuary temple
- There was a gigantic statue of the seated king
- Located in Thebes
- More grandiose than his fathers
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Semna Dispatches
- located in Nubia
- ports of collection usually fortified
- Papyri texts about movement and actives
- The texts proof Egypt keeping tabs on the Nubian's
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Seqenenre Tao
- Fell to the Hyksos
- multiple fatal skull injuries
- A ruler that went out to fight with his troops
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Tell al Dab’a/Avaris
- D 12 becoming non- Egyptian
- House designs similar to Syria
- Avaris capital for the Hyksos d 15
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The Eloquent Peasant
- 1st intermediate period literature
- themes of justice
- peasant addresses the judge 9 times
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Thutmose III
- New kingdom expansion
- D 18
- Lead 17 campaigns expanding to the Levant area
- Luxor
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Vizier
- Second hand man to the pharaoh
- handle day to day state issues
- Amenh 1 was a vizier
- life and in death close ties to the king or queen
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