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Ancient History
Egypt
Question | Answer |
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Who is Hapi | God of the Nile |
what are cataracts | obstructions in the river nile |
what is the elephantine frontier | a natural boundary formed by cataracts |
what is the delta | a shallow multi channeled section of the river |
what is the marshy wetlands found in the north east valley of the river | faiyum |
what is the name for the red land and what is it | deshret - any land that has not been touched by the flood water |
what is the name given to lower egypt | to-muhu |
what is the name for the black land and what is it | kemet - the land covered in silt presumably black, consequences of flood water |
what were the seasons | akhet - inundation (flooding), peret - emergence, shemu - dry time |
what three gods were widely worshipped across egypt in the predynastic period | seth, horus and neith |
when did the first kings rule the whole of egypt | 2900BC |
what was the capital of united egypt | memphis |
what is the traditional view of how unified egypt was created | king menes lead the armies of upper egypt to defeat the kingdom of lower egypt and then founded the new capitol memphis |
what are the terms given to the regions of un-unified egypt | proto-kingdoms and confederacies |
Predynastic Period | 5500 - 3100 BC |
Early Dynastic Period | 3100 - 2686BC, dynasties 1 - 2 |
Old Kingdom | 2686 - 2181 BC, dynasties 3 - 6? |
First Intermediate Period | 2181 - 2055 BC, dynasties 7 - 10 |
Middle Kingdom | 2055 - 1650, dynasties 11 - 13 |
Second Intermediate Period | 1650 - 1550, dynasties 14 - 17 |
New Kingdom | 1550 - 1069 BC, dynasty 18 - 20 |
define reign | period of time when the same person s ruling and particular place |
define dynasty | period of time where the same family is ruling |
define intermediate period | period of time when the centralised governments has collapsed; conflict and disorder |
what is Ma'at | divine order and justice, symbol is a feather or a women a crown with a feather in it |
who is osiris | god of death |
who is isis | goddess of fertility and it the wife/sister of osiris and the mother of horus |
who is seth/set | the god of storms and chaos |
who is horus | regarded as the protector of the monarchy |
what is the other title given to the capitol memphis | white wall |
whos was established as the god of memphis | Narmer |
how did the kings show the universality of their reign | by combining the crown of upper and lower egypt to create the pschent |
what is the term describing the natural division of rule in upper and lower egypt | the natural antipathy |
which king marks the beginning of the old kingdom | the pharaoh Djozer |
how did the building of royal pyramids show power | because it took a massive amount of power to collect the resources needed and the man power and what not |
What pushed the ancient egyptians to egypt | The expansion of the desert |
egyptian terms for upper and lower egypt | Upper- Shemau Lower- To-mehu |
who is bored | monique |
How many nomes were there? | 42 |
The first capitol of unified egypt | MEmphis |
what is the significance of 'the weighing of the heart' | The ancient egyptians believed that in the afterlife, to decide your fate yoour heart would be weighed on a scale and on the other side would be the feather of Ma'at. If your heart was lighter than the feather than you would go into the field of reeds |
who is anubis | the jackle-headed god, and is associated with the dead and to protect them on their journey to the afterlife |
who is thoth | is depicted with an ibis head or sometimes as a baboon, he the scribe of the gods |
who were the two ladies | wadjet and nekbet |
who is nekbet | the vulture headed goddess of upper egypt |
who was rha/re | the sun god |
who is wadjet | the cobra goddess of lower egypt |
Who thinks Monique is stupid? | Molly |