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