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AP World His. chptr3

Early African Societies and the bantu migration

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Menes Egyptian Pharoah credited with founding the 1st dynasty.
Pharoah A king of Ancient Egypt; A tyrant who has supreme will and rule; governed by a royal decree.
Mummification To make a dead body a mummy by embalmbing and drying.
Tuthmosis III Was the Powerful New Kingdom warrior pharoah; Largest empire.
Hatshepsut First women to rule Egypt; took power from her step-son.
Harkhuf Governor of Upper Egypt; an explorer through Nubia.
Pyramids Huge Egyptian structures built of brick and stone; burial tombs for Pharoahs.
Hieroglyphics Ancient Egyptian written language.
Khufu Builder of the largest pyramid; Great pyramid of Giza
Osiris Egyptian God of the underworld.
Amon-Re Inspiration for a massive temple at heliopolis; combo of the sun god re and the air god amon.
Akhenaten Pharoah who attempted, unsuccessfully, to promote monotheism.
Kush Nubian Kingdom that conquered and controlled Africa.
Kandake Nubian female regent; title for female rulers of the Ancient African state of Kush.
Hyksos Sematic peoples who introduced horse-drawn chariots and bronze weapons into Egypt.
Bantu Tribes that spread their language across Africa.
Kashata soft A soft food prepared from hulled and crushed grain, especially buckwheat; Later Kushite king who conquered and ruled Egypt.
Egyptians viewed the Nile as a what? Benevolent source of a prosperous society.
Egypt was unified under Menes when he formed a what? Centralized government born of conquest.
Rulers in the New KIngdom demonstrated their power annd authority by doing what? Building temples and palaces.
Since Egypt had an all-powerful divine ruler, rather than an inherited nobility, the Egyptian ruling class was compromised of who? The military and bureaucrats.
Despite the frequent presence of female regents and the acceptance of womenn in other public roles, Queen Hatshepsut unsettled Egyptian society so much that what happened? Artists depicted her as a male.
Egyptians engaged in long distance trade when? well before unification of Menes.
In what way was Egyptian writing less cumbersome than cuneiform? Heiroglyphics are written on papyrus rather than clay tablets.
Unlike the Hebrew beliefs in Mesopotamia, Egyptian monotheism was what? Unsustainable due to its competition from the priests of other dietes.
The origin of the Bantu Language is believed to be in what? West Africa where the populations grew enough to spread out.
What was the pattern of expansion of Bantu culture? Intermittently through colonization in regions of agricultural prosperity.
While Mesopotamia met its primary challenge by decentralizing, Egypt's response was to unify and remain so during most of its history. What was this challenge? Efforts to support large scale agriculture.
Egyptian history is traditionally organized around three kingdoms. What instutional patterns changed between the three? Egyptian governments moved toward expansion into neighboring lands.
It is apparent from archaeological sites that sub-Saharan peoples developed iron metallurgy independently. Whatn would possibly lead historians to the conclusion that iron metallurgy was not a borrowed technology from Southwest Asia? Early Iron production sites in Africa are far beyond the Nile River Valley and date to a period close to its adoption in Egypt.
Technologically speaking, The Nile societies were what? slower to develop metallurgy than mesopotamia was, learned iron metallurgy from Sub-Saharan African cultures, developed systems of water transport like the sailboat, and produced fine linen textiles.
Mummification pyramids, and funery rituals in ancient Egypt were extremely costly and troublesome. The customs prevailed for several thousand years because the ruling elites precieved a need for demonstrating their power and what? Egyptians believed in an afterlife.
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