AP World History, Chapter 3: Egyptian Explorer Harkhuf – Flashcards
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The first clear view of an after-world in the ancient world came from
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Egypt
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By around ______ B.C.E. peoples of the eastern Sudan started to domesticate cattle and became nomadic herders
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9000
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The early Sudanic societies recognized a single divine force as the source of good and evil, and they associated it with
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rain
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Do to a climate shift the Sahara desert, which had been cool and well watered, became increasingly arid and uninhabitable around
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5000 B.C.E.
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The Greek historian Herodotus used the phrase "the gift of the ______" to describe Egypt
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Nile
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In regards to political organization, Egypt
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was much more organized than Mesopotamia
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Egypt was united around 3100 B.C.E. by the conqueror
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Menes
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Egyptians associated the early pharaohs with
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Horus
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The largest Egyptian pyramids were built during the
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Old Kingdom
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______ is the largest of all the pyramids
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Khufu
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During the third millennium the Egyptians traded with the Nubian kingdom of
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Kush
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The capital of the kingdom of Kush was
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Kerma
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Harkhuf was
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an Egyptian explorer who visited Nubia
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Pharaohs in the Middle Kingdom were
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less powerful than pharaohs of the Old Kingdom
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The pharaoh Neferkare was most excited to see ______ brought back from Nubia by the explorer Harkhuf
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the dancing dwarf
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the Hyksos were
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external invaders who helped bring about the end of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom
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Horse-drawn chariots and bronze weapons were introduced into Egypt by the
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Hyksos
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The most vigorous of all New Kingdom pharaohs was ______, who led his troops into Palestine and Syria and who even received tribute from the Mesopotamian city-states
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Tuthmosis III
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The Egyptians were the most imperialistic during the
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New Kingdom
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During the eighth century B.C.E. Egypt fell under the control of the ______ for around a century
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Kushites
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Around 760 B.C.E. the Kushite King Kashta
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founded a dynasty that ruled Egypt for around a hundred years
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In the mid-seventh century B.C.E. Egypt lost its independence and became a part of
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the Assyrian empire
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The conqueror Menes founded ______ around 3100 B.C.E., a city that would serve as the capital for early Egypt
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Memphis
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Hatshepsut was
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the first woman to rule Egypt as pharaoh
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In which of the following societies did women enjoy the most freedom and opportunity
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Egypt
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In Kush
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there is evidence for many female rulers
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A kandake was
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a female regent in Kush
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In Africa, iron metallurgy
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arose independently
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The Egyptians traded through the Red Sea with a land they called Punt, which is probably
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modern day Somalia
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The Greek words meaning "holy inscriptions" refers to
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hieroglyphics
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The Egyptian work, "The Satire of the Trades,"
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reflected a scribe's desire for his son to become a scribe himself and avoid other unpleasant jobs
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Meroitic writing
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was a Nubian script that borrowed Egyptian hieroglyphics
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The cult of Amon-Re
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was a combination of the Egyptian air and sun gods
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The cult of Amon-Re is the best example of
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how the Egyptians associated various gods with each other
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What Pharaoh tried, unsuccessfully, to transform Egypt into a monotheistic society
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Akhenaton
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Besides the Hebrews, the only other example of monotheism from the ancient world occurred during the reign of
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Akhenaton
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The line, "O Sole God beside whom there is none! You made the earth as you wished," is drawn from
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the Great Hymn to Aten
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The Egyptian god of the underworld was
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Osiris
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Osiris judged whether or not souls were worthy for immortality by
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weighing their hearts against a feather symbolizing justice
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During the Old Kingdom
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only the pharaohs received the honor of mummification
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The Bantu originally came from around
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Modern day Nigeria
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The tribes which, beginning as early as 3000 B.C.E., began to spread their language and agriculture techniques throughout Africa were the
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Bantu
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In relation to spreading their language across a huge stretch of Africa the Bantu played a role similar to that played by the
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Indo-Europeans
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The Bantu probably began their migrations because of
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population pressures
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By the middle of the first millenium B.C.E. the Bantu people had begun to produce
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iron
