CHAPTER 5 STUDY GUIDE ANSWERS

SAHARA:WORLD'S LARGEST DESERT
NILE:WORLD'S LONGEST RIVER
EGYPT: CALLED THE SEEDBED OF AFRICAN CULTURE
MIZRAIM:MOST ANICENT NAME OF EGYPT;NAME OF ONE OF HAMS SONS; BIBLE CALLS EGYPT THE LAND OF HAM
LAND OF HAM: BIBLE CALLS EGYPT
NOMES:SMALL STATES
PHARAOHS:STRONG RULERS; DIVIDED NOMES INTO LOWER AND UPPER EGYPT
MENES:1ST PHARAOH OF EGYPT; UNTIED UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT;EGYPT BECAME KNOWN AS "KINGDOM OF THE TWO LANDS"
"THE GIFT OF THE NILE":HERODOTUS CALLED EGYPT
HIEROGLYPHICS:THE WRITING SYSTEM;CONTAIN OVER 700 CHARACTERS
BOOK OF THE DEAD:MOST IMPORTANT EGYPTIAN WORK;CONTAINED PRAYERS,HYMNS,SPELLS,AND OTHER INFORMATION TO GUIDE SOULS THROUGH THE AFTERLIFE
MEMPHIS:ONE IMPORTANT EGYPTIANS CITES, KNOWN AS NOPH IN HEBREW BIBLE; NOTHING REMAIN BUT TO GRANITE COLOSSI AND ONE ALABASIET SPHINK
THEBES:MEANS CITY OF THE DEAD NOTHING REMAIN BUT THE VAST NECROPLIS
NECROPOLIS:CITY OF THE DEAD
PYRAMID:TOP-PHAROAH,SIDES-PRIEST AND OFFICIALS,BASE-EVERYONE ELSE;SYMBOLIZES EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT
MONARCHY:RULED BY ONE KING
THEOCRACY:RULED BY GOD
HUMANISM:WORSHIPED MEN(PHAROAHS)
NATURALISM:WORSHIPED FORCES OF NATURE
EGYPTIAN TOMBS: MAN SPENT AS MUCH TIME PREPARING HIS TOMB FOR THE AFTERLIFE
POLYTHEISM:BELIEVED IN THOUSANDS OF gODS AND gODDESSESS
GREAT PYRAMID OF CHEOPS: ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD
KING TUT:TEENAGE PHAROAH WHO DIED AT 18 TEEN
MUMMIFICATION: PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF THE DEAD, HUGE TOMBS AND PYRAMIDS WERE USED AS CASKETS.
OLD KINGDOM:DYNASTIES 3-6, THREE IMPORTANT MONARCHS1)CHEOPS2)KHAFRE3)MENKAURE
PYRAMIDS AT GIZA: CHEOPS,KHAFRE, AND MENKAURE BUILT THEM
GREAT SPHINX:HEAD OF A MAN, BODY OF A LION BEARS THE LIKNESS OF KHAFRE
MIDDLE KINDGOM:11TH DYNASTY, KING MENTUBOLEP 1 ESTABLISHED CAPITAL AT THEBES
KING MENUHOTEP 1: KING OF THE MIDDLE KINDGOM
HYKSOS:ASIATIC WARRIORS, CONQUERED THE MIDDLE KINGDOM
AHMOSE1:KING OF THE NEW KINDGOM
NEW KINGDOM: 18-20TH DYNASTY, DROVE THE HYKSOS OUT OF EGYPT
HATSHEPUT:MAY OF BEN MOSES MOM; ONLY FEMALE PHAROAH
AMENHOTEP 2:THUTMOSE 3 SON,MAY HAVE BEN PHAROAH
LATER NEW KINGDOM: RAMSES2 MOST OUTSTANDING EGYPTIAN MONARCH
RAMSES 2: MOST OUT STANDING EGYPTIAN MONARCH
ALEXANDER THE GREAT: CONQUERED EGYPT 332B.C
ALEXANDRIA: BECAME MOST IMPORTANT CITY IN ALEXANDERS EMPIRE
LIGHT HOUSE OF ALEXANDRIA: ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD 440-FOOT HIGH MARBLE TOWER AND WITH A FIRE BURNING PITCH AND A GIANT REFLECTIVE MIRROR THE LIGHT