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History 02 Midterm Egypt
History 02 Midterm Egypt
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Undergraduate 1
10/04/2016

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Pharaoh
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Title given to the king of Egypt, derived from a word meaning 'great house'.
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3100-2660 BCE
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Unification of Egypt
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2660-2180 BCE
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Construction of the pyramids began
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1570 BCE
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Creation of an Egyptian Empire/ The New Kingdom is Formed
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1100-653 BCE
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Political fragmentation and conquest caused by outsiders
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Gift of the Nile
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The Nile's annual and predictable floods, which brought Egypt fertile soil for farming.
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Book of the Dead
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Collection of funerary manuscripts concerning Egyptian afterlife concepts.
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Hieroglyphics
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The form of writing used by Egyptians for important religious and political texts.
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Hieratic
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A simpler form of writing that allowed for scribes to write more quickly, and was used for documents of daily life
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Hatshepsut
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One of the few female pharaohs, who existed during the New Kingdom, and promoted building and trade
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