Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
28 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Cataract
|
Rocky stretches in a river marked by rapid currently waterfalls
|
|
|
menes
|
First Pharaoh of Egypt he is credited United Upper and Lower Egypt and is said to have sounded the city Memphis by the capital of unified Egypt
|
|
|
Pharaoh
|
Ruler of ancient Egypt
|
|
|
Delta
|
A triangular region format the mouth of a river by deposits of silt
|
|
|
Theocracy
|
A government ruled by religious leaders who claimed God's authority
|
|
|
Bureaucracy
|
A highly structured organization often governmental named by officials
|
|
|
hatshepsut
|
Ancient Egypt she took the throne in place of her stepson enduring her rays focused on to building projects and trade
|
|
|
Ramses the great
|
Pharaoh of Egypt he led an army against the hitits invaders of Egypt he ruled Egypt extravagance Built more temples and monuments and any other Egyptian pharaoh
|
|
|
objelisk
|
Tolson pillars with pyramid shaped tops
|
|
|
Hieroglyphics
|
Form of ancient writing in which pictures symbols represented sounds
|
|
|
Mummification
|
Process of preserving the body with chemicals after death
|
|
|
Papyrus
|
Paper like material made by ancient Egyptians from see steam of the reedy papyrus plant it which grows in Nile River
|
|
|
Rosetta stone
|
Greatest Stone found in 1799 that bears an encryption in hieroglyphics demotic characters and Greek gave first to Egyptian hieroglyphics
|
|
|
piankhi
|
King of ancient Kush let kushides north Egypt conquering all Egypt and making himself pharaoh
|
|
|
Smelt
|
Tobmult or fuse metal in order to separate metallic components
|
|
|
Osiris
|
Became king an judge of the dead after he had been killed by Seth and restore to life but Isis portrayed a green skin mummy
|
|
|
akhenaten
|
Means beloved of aten he worships only one God aten the Sun God he banned the worship of any God other than aten
|
|
|
tut
|
Famous for preserved to parents were siblings died at 17 years
|
|
|
re
|
In Old Kingdom God of the Sun
|
|
|
Isis
|
Was the sister and wife of Osiris she was worshipped as a goddess of nature in the protector of women she was usually drawn with a throne on her head
|
|
|
ka
|
Spirit of dead
|
|
|
Scribe
|
Hi paying middle-class jobs for the literate
|
|
|
hieratic
|
Religious texts
|
|
|
Nile River
|
LifeSource provided water transport and also food
|
|
|
Nubia
|
Located to the south of Egypt along the Nile River Egyptians there were expert traders and skilled pottery makers
|
|
|
kushites
|
Who invaded Egypt and preserved Egyptian culture
|
|
|
Egypt geographic features
|
Niall and Sahara
|
|
|
Old middle and New Egypt
|
Old pyramid
middle outside invaders threat no army and unstable government encouraged trade new powerful military |
