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What did the Egyptians do to the dead |
mumification |
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Who introduced horses to Egypt |
indo-europeans |
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What river did the eygptians relie on |
nile |
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They were not divided into city-states because |
they did not have big wars |
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when the climate grew hotter |
they moved downstream and grew crops higher up |
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Menes rose to power and made capital |
Memphis |
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King as to Mesopotamia as ____ is to Egypt |
PHAROAH |
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were pharaohs gods? |
yes |
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they built large |
pyramids |
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the nile river was |
predictable |
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rich soil called |
silt |
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relied on |
agriculture |
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Did they have invasions? |
No because desert, red sea |
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nubians were threatened by the eygptians b/c
so they.. |
they had a larger flood plain
intermarried to assimilate |
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old kingdom |
2660 to 2100 bce |
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new kingdom |
1550 to 1070 bce |
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the old kingdom was the |
age of pyramids -massive pyramids |
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the middle kingdom was the |
golden age -stability |
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the new kingdom was the |
imperial age -growth
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the hyskos were |
semitic ppl |
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egyptians imported exported |
imported: wood (no trees), papyrus |
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MESOpotamia and egyptians both had well defined |
classes |
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bantu ppl |
clan based nomadic because overpopulation |
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writing system |
hieroglyphics |
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was there a noble class |
no b//c pharaoh had all land |
