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14 Cards in this Set
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Nile |
-Worlds largest river -Flows north from Africa to Mediterranean sea -Blue and white Nile (they meet in Khartoum) -farming villages scattered along the banks of it -highway for trade |
Herodotus found all its live giving benefits by rafting down its path |
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Cataracts |
Rock filled rapids found in Nubian sect. of nile. -had to do with the upper and lower nubia, because it made things harder and easier for ppl -Nubians dev. trade routes over land because these were in the way |
The Nile through ancient Nubia |
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Lower nubia |
-Bet. first and sec. cataracts -Granite mountains and very lil farmable land -rarely rained and ppl lived closer to the Nile for water supply.
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Upper Nubia |
-bet. second and sixth cataracts -rain does fall -ppl farmed in summer and fall. |
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Delta |
-Triangle shaped fertile area made of little rivers found at the end of the nile -had to do with upper and lower egypt -villages built around the fertile banks near these. |
The Nile through ancient Egypt/Civilizations along the Nile |
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Silt |
Rich fertile highland soil which was brought down and deposited on land when the Nile overflowed |
Was a gift from the nile |
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Kemet |
Dark soil left by nile floods |
Red land and black land |
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Red land |
-Beyond riverbanks -vast shielding desert for Nubia from attacks |
Black and red land |
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New Kingdom |
-Hatshepsut ruled egy. during this time -great time of peace and economic success -latest time |
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Hatchepsut |
-lead army into battle -encouraged trade -she dressed as a man to prove her point of respect for women -son was Thutmose -she refused to let her son take over when she died, because she loved her job, but he took over anyway -Unknown if her son had something to do with her death since he burned all her statues |
Mulan wanted respect, so she dressed as a man and went to war |
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Menes |
-united upper and lower egy. (uniting them became one of most stable civiliz., and lasted for more than 2,500)
-White crown=upper egy. Red crown=lower egy.
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He was nice, not "menes" (mean) From Dynasty to Dynasty |
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Thutmose |
-young and became pharoah and his matter became regent -one of the greatest pharoahs -loved to study plants -treated defeated ppls with mercy -when grown, his mom wouldn't let him take over her job because she loved her job. -when his mom died, he burned all her statues, but we don't know if that's all that he did. |
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Pharoah |
Egyptian (god) kings -absolute power -made decisions into laws -religious leader(s) -governors challenged pharaohs at the the end of the old kingdom |
Thutmose was the greatest one. All powerful Pharaohs/Two Thousand Years of Power |
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Dynasty |
-series of rulers from the same family -egy. had 31 until conquered by Alex the great
Historians group dynasties into 3 main time periods -Old Kingdom (earliest) -Middle Kingdom -New kingdom (oldest/latest) |
Duck "dynasty" is a group of people from the same family, each being old, young, and middle aged people.
From Dynasty to Dynasty |
