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Ancient Civilizations
Mr. Hanover
Egypt Student Study Guide
Egypt: Neolithic to Roman Conquest
Key Concepts
1) What are the four major physical regions of Egypt?
2) How does the Nile compare to other rivers?
3) List the trees of the Nile
4) List the flowering plants of the Nile.
5) What did Neolithic people learn to do?
6) What is important about the flooding of the Nile and when does it happen?
7) What did people do during the Badarian Phase?
8) What do Badarian cemeteries tell archaeologists?
9) Describe Pre-dynastic pottery
10) What did Pre-dynastic Egyptians eat?
11) What part of Egypt was more sophisticated?
12) What is mortar used for?
13) Why is it difficult for Archaeologists to find artifacts in Lower Egypt?
14) What were the main foods for many people in Egypt?
15) What did increased trade bring the people of Naqada and Abydos?
16) Describe Egyptian clothing.
17) What did the Egyptians think about cosmetics?
18) What were ivory and bone used for?
19) What is zoomorphic?
20) Define Hypothesis
21) What is significant about Naqada?
22) What classes of people lived in Egypt?
23) What meats did the people of Naqada eat?
24) What animal was important to Naqada society?
25) Describe religion in Pre-dynastic Egypt.
26) What did Naqada II people use symbols for?
27) How were small children buried?
28) Describe the hierarchy of Southern (Upper) Egypt.
29) Where was the first known temple built in Egypt?
30) What forms of transportation were used in Egypt?
31) How did the peopl of Maadi make a living?
32) Where did Egyptions get their Lapis Lazuli?
33) Describe trade during the Naqada II period.
34) How far had the Egyptians conquered during Pre-Dynastic times?
35) What does a hieroglyph represent?
36) What were palettes used for?
37) Define Serekh.
38) What did the Egyptians think that their king was?
39) Describe Maat.
40) Osiris was which god?
41) Where did the Nubians live?
42) What is another name for Nubians?
43) What were the Nubians known for?
44) Define a dynasty.
45) What is a mace?
46) Who was King Narmer?
47) What was important about Memphis?
48) What is a nome?
49) What were the “two lands” of Egypt?
50) Why did Egyptian kings wear two crowns?
51) What did Egyptians believe that Old Kingdom kings have that other Egyptians did
not have?
52) What were the duties of a scribe?
53) What is corvee Labor?
54) What did Inhotep invent? What kind of material did he build with?
55) What figure of speech was used to describe the accuracy of Cheop’s pyramid?
56) In Egypt, was inheritance through the mother or the father?
57) How far away can you be and still see the pyramids?
58) What kind of calendar did the Egyptians use?
59) Compare a feudal administrator and a king in Egypt.
60) All Egyptians thought they had this by the First Intermediate Period.
61) Describe the conditions of anarchy in Egypt.
62) Who restored order in the First Intermediate Period?
63) What happened to Upper and Lower Egypt that began the Middle Kingdom?
64) What is the Middle Kingdom considered to be?
65) What did Middle Kingdom kings share with the bureaucracy?
66) Where were gold and gems located?
67) Why were gold and gems important?
68) Describe a “harem conspiracy.”
69) Was Egypt made up of only Egyptians in the Middle Kingdom?
70) Who were the Hyksos?
71) Where did Hebrew speaking tribes come to Egypt from?
72) List the technologies brought to Egypt by the Hyksos.
73) What people were not conquered by the Hyksos?
74) Who defeated the Hyksos?
75) How did the cities of Egypt compare to the cities of Mesopotamia?
76) What name was given to the New Kingdom kings?
77) What title was given to New Kingdom kings?
78) What does “per aa” mean?
79) Why did Pharaohs have so many wives?
80) What is a capital case and what did a Pharaoh do about it?
81) Who was maat?
82) What is an incarnation? Who was pharaoh suppose to be an incarnation of?
83) Who was Wadjet?
84) Who was Nekhbet?
85) What weapons of the Hyksos were important to the pharaohs?
86) Where were Syria and Palestine?
87) What is tribute?
88) What is special about the Valley of the Kings?
89) What was special about Hatshepsut?
90) What is an obelisk?
91) What is Thuthmosis III remembered most for?
92) What is monotheism?
93) Why wouldn’t Amenhotep attack other kingdoms?
94) What made King Tut special?
95) Even more than being a Pharaoh, Seti I was consider to be something else.
96) Ramesses II married Manefrure to conclude what kind of agreement?
97) Who fled from Egypt under Ramesses II?
98) Did the Egyptians ever record the name of the Hebrews?
99) Who lived in Palestine at the time of the Isrealites?
100)
Who united Israel under one dynasty?
101)
Who were the Sea People?
102)
Who took control of Egypt at the time of the Third Intermediate Period?
103)
Who conquered Egypt during the Third Intermediate Period?
104)
Who were the first to conquer Egypt during the Late Period?
105)
What Assyrian king conquered Egypt?
106)
What is a vassal?
107)
What did the Saite kings do?
108)
With what foreign kingdom did Egypt make an alliance?
109)
Who was Cyrus the Great?
110)
What Persian king conquered Egypt?
111)
What is a satrap?
112)
What is “The Levant.”
113)
Who was Nectanebo II?
114)
What did the Egyptians call Alexander the Great?
115)
What city did Alexander build in Egypt?
116)
What nationality was Ptolemy I?
117)
From what words do we get the name Cleopatra?
118)
Under Ptolemaic rule, what was the official language of Egypt?
119)
What was the original name of Egypt?
120)
Why did Julius Caesar conquer Egypt?
121)
What Roman finally conquered Egypt for the last time?
Short Answer
1. Discuss why the discovery of an intact tomb such as Tutankhamun’s was so
important.
2. Examine the reasons Akhenaten challenged the long-held religious beliefs by
mandating monotheism.
3. Referencing at least one work of visual art and one work of architecture, discuss
the Egyptians’ use of art as propaganda.
4. How did Egypt’s physical location along the Nile River affect the culture’s
political system, religion, and art. Explore at least three examples.
5. Investigate the rationale for Akhenaten allowing himself and his family be
portrayed realistically in the new Amarna style.
6. List three examples that show the connection between the Nile River and the
continuity of Egypt’s religion, government, and culture.
7. Discuss the position of writing and writers in ancient Egyptian culture.
Essay Questions:
1. What are the four reasons that Ancient Egypt is so prevalent in the modern
consciousness? In your opinion, which of these reasons is most important in
creating Egypt’s lasting influence. Be specific.
2. Describe Egypt’s unique geography. How did the geography help the Egyptian
kingdoms be successful? How did the geography ultimately cause failures for the
Egyptian kingdoms? Be specific.
3. What are the nine periods of Egyptian history? Explain, in general terms how the
rise and fall of periods/kingdoms took place.
4. Explain the role of the scribe in Ancient Egypt. How did they influence Egyptian
history?
5. Using specific details, explain what the pyramids represented to the governments
and people of Ancient Egypt. What were their influences on Egyptian
civilization?