Egypt Review

Description:	A review of Unit 2 Egypt
Category:	World History
Created by:	pattone on 2009-06-23

Question	Answer
What does KEMET mean	Black Land
What was a consistent feature of the floods of the Nile?	predictable
What is the length of the Nile River?	4160 miles
There are 6 of these on the Nile	cataracts
The marshy fan shaped area emptying into the Mediterranean	Nile Delta
the Delta is known as ?	Lower Egypt
The Land upstream to the South was called	Upper Egypt
What Natural Barriers to the East protected Egypt	Red Sea
What Natural Barriers to the North protected Egypt	Mediterranean
What Natural Barriers to the West protected Egypt	deserts
What Natural Barriers are on the Nile that protected Egypt	cataracts
monarchy?	unrestricted rule of a King
Who united the large kingdoms of lower and upper egypt	Menes
dynasty	line of rulers from one family
The number of dynasties in Ancient Egypt	thirty
the number of kingdoms in Ancient Egyptian History	three
the king is both the political and religious leader	theocracy
delegation of government responsibilities	bureaucracy
Pharoah's Bureaucratic leader	Vizier
deciphered by the Rosetta Stone	Hieroglyphics
pyramids and mummies were examples of belief	afterlife
built during Old Kingdom	Pyramids
preserved the physical body	mummification
guards the Great Pyramids	Sphinx
monuments at Giza	Great Pyramids
Step Pyramid built for him	King Djoser
The capital of the Old Kingdom	Memphis
The capital of the New Kingdom	Thebes
Akhenaton's capital	Akhetaton
conquered Egypt using Bronze weapons and Chariots	Hyksos
New Kingdom first pharaoh	Ahmose
female pharoah	Hatshepsut
Aton	Akhenaton's god
succeeded Akhenaton	Tutankamen
Last Great Pharaoh	Ramses the Great
belief in many gods	Polytheism
Sun god	Amon-Re
God of Resurrection	Osiris
monotheism	belief in one god
egyptian gods	part human and part animal
Heiroglyphics	writing in pictures and symbols
A covenant	agreement
exodus	departure
Egyptians believed that humans had two bodies, one physical and one spiritual, the spiritual was called the	KA
Ahmose assumed the title of Pharaoh which means	Great House of the King
Amenhotep IV changed his name to	Akhenaton
Akhenaton made the effort to change Egypt by	forcing monotheism (Aton) on the Egyptian people
Their culuture located on the upper Tigris River, these people exploited the use of iron weapons to establish an empire by 700 B.C	The Assyrians
the provinces established in the Persian empire were called	Satrapies
this term refers to a particular group of people who used a language derived from a single parent tongue	Indo European
the belief in one all powerful God	monotheism
the word covenant means	agreement
The Hebrew leader known for his wisdom was	Solomon
These groups of nomads domesticated animals for food and clothing, Did interact between settled communities and aided long distance trade	pastoral nomads
great sea traders who became best known for their 22 character alphabet were the	Phoenicians
the first to accept the belief in a single God were the	Hebrews
The people who developed a good army which was large, organized and disciplined, good at conquering but were very cruel were the	Assyrians
The Chaldeans under this king became the leading state after the collapse of the Assyrians	Nebuchadnezzar
Cryus was a great leader of the Persians, his son was responsible for dividing the empire into 20 satrapies which was a form of bureaucracy, his name was	Darius
the governor of the satrapie was known as the	satrap
Zoroastrianism was the __________ of the Persians	religion
the founder of Zoroastrianism was	Zoroaster
Zoroaster taught there was one wise lord named Ahuramazda who was good and an evil spirit known as Ahriman, a major teaching was that 'All humans had the freedom to choose between right and wrong', the teachings were written down in a book called the	ZEND AVESTA