MIDTERM

Question 1

Abydos

Answer 1

• A capital City
• Location of the Tomb of Kings
• A center for Nagada Culture
• Royal cemetery
• A painted birth brick

Question 2

Amarna Tablets/ Letters

Answer 2

• written on clay tablets in cuneiform script
• Proof Egypt had a upper hand in negotiations
• Mostly from Akhenaten reign
• 400 letters

Question 3

Amenemhet 1

Answer 3

• Middle Kingdom reign during the 12th D
• Assassination attempt signs of political insatability
• He was a Vizier
• Pyramid of Amenenhet is ITJ Tawy

Question 4

Badarian Culture

Answer 4

• 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

Question 5

Corvee Labor

Answer 5

• Form of labor
• Used for taxation
• type of labor used to help build monuments
• Used for state projects

Question 6

Deir el-Medina

Answer 6

• 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

Question 7

Democratization of the afterlife

Answer 7

• 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

Question 8

Dispute Between a Man and His Ba

Answer 8

• 1st Intermediate Period literature
• grappling with despair
• Carpe Diem theme

Question 9

Dream Stela

Answer 9

• 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

Question 10

Harem Conspiracy

Answer 10

• 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

Question 11

Herakleopolis

Answer 11

• 20th Upper Egypt nome
• Capital city during the 3rd intermediate period and and late period
• working class ceremony
• tomb 100 had plaster painted walls

Question 12

Hyksos

Answer 12

• 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)

Question 13

Kerma Culture

Answer 13

• Upper Nubia
• Middle Kerma were are powerful independent state
• Ahmose campaigns against Kerma
• Tumuli shows signs of sacrificial victims

Question 14

King Scorpion

Answer 14

• Prodynastic, one of the earliest kings
• scorpion next to name
• tomb U-J likely his tomb located at Abydos
• One of two scorpion kings

Question 15

Manetho

Answer 15

• D 7-8
• ” 70 kings in 70 days”
• 3rd century priest
• created a list of royal dynasties

Question 16

Memphis

Answer 16

• 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

Question 17

Nabta Playa

Answer 17

• neolithic
• stone in circular arrangement
• located in southern Egypt
• new ceramic type with black tops

Question 18

Nagada Culture

Answer 18

• 1 of the primary pre- dynastic cultural groups
• Upper Egypt
• largest settlement in the region
• beginning of monumental architecture
• Tomb 100

Question 19

Napoleonic Invasion

Answer 19

• 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

Question 20

Nome

Answer 20

• Administrative districts or provinces
• Divided in sequence with land on both sides of the river
• 22 Nomes of Upper Egypt
• Est. by 5th Dynasty

Question 21

Personal Piety

Answer 21

• 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

Question 22

Ptolomy I Soter

Answer 22

• D 33
• Given Egypt to rule
• Represents himself as a pharaoh
• Grain- based economy

Question 23

Ramesseum

Answer 23

• Rameses II mortuary temple
• There was a gigantic statue of the seated king
• Located in Thebes
• More grandiose than his fathers

Question 24

Semna Dispatches

Answer 24

• located in Nubia
• ports of collection usually fortified
• Papyri texts about movement and actives
• The texts proof Egypt keeping tabs on the Nubian’s

Question 25

Seqenenre Tao

Answer 25

- Fell to the Hyksos - multiple fatal skull injuries - A ruler that went out to fight with his troops

Question 26

Tell al Dab’a/Avaris

Answer 26

- D 12 becoming non- Egyptian - House designs similar to Syria - Avaris capital for the Hyksos d 15

Question 27

The Eloquent Peasant

Answer 27

- 1st intermediate period literature - themes of justice - peasant addresses the judge 9 times

Question 28

Thutmose III

Answer 28

- New kingdom expansion - D 18 - Lead 17 campaigns expanding to the Levant area - Luxor

Question 29

Vizier

Answer 29

- 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

Question 30

William Matthew Flinders Petrie

Answer 30

- A pioneer, he developed a systemic way of excavation - He took detailed notes for each site, everything had value - sequence through stratigraphy - created ceramic seriation related to chronology