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- Hor-aha
- built Memphis; son of Narmer
- 1st historian to write about Egypt
- Manetho
- Manetho
- wrote the first history of Egypt
- he brought Egypt to modern people
- Napoleon
- Memphis
- northern capital
- Common tomb building
- Mastaba
- Upper Egypt
- southern Egypt
- sun god's sacred object
- ben ben
- Giza complex held pyramids for
- Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure
- Abydos
- sacred to Osiris
- famous architect god
- Imhotep
- King Djet is represented by
- a snake
- Zoser
- Dynasty 3 king, Old Kingdom, built a 200ft high pyramid,
- King Khasekemwy ruled during
- Dynasty 2
- Another word for Papyrus
- reeds
- stele
- a standing stone with carving on it
- Creator god who led the Great Ennead
- Ptah
- Ma'at
- balance in the universe
- Ogdoad means the #
- 8
- HebSed Festival
- rejuvenates king, occured every 30 years
- Meidum
- a pyramid, also called "the fallen pyramid"; built for burial, but no evidence of use; started as a step pyramid then turned into a flat sided pyramid; appears to have stood in good condition from Dynasties 3-12; collapsed from natural causes; definitely collapsed by Dynasty 19; begun as a step pyramid for King Huni & King Snefru turned it in to a flat pyramid
- Huni
- 5th king of Dynasty 3 king, Old Kingdom, ruled for 24 years, died without a son, his daughter, Hetepheres, married Snefru. He built 7-8 small step pyramids along the Nile
- Dynasty of the Meidum pyramid
- Dynasty 3
- 1st capital of Egypt
- Memphis
- Hierakonpolis
- Nehken
- palermo ston
- earliest surviving king list, starts with pre-dynastic chieftains, only goes through dynasty 5
- royal headdress
- Nemes headdress
- Flail
- tool used to harvest grain
- Narmer palette was found in Dynasty
- 1
- King who begins Dynasty 1
- Narmer
- Lower Egypt
- Northern Egypt
- subsidiary tombs
- servant burial tombs
- Built "The Fort"
- King Khasekemwy
- Goddess of harmony
- Maat
- god of Memphis
- Ptah
- Tomb 100
- found at Hierakonpolis, oldest painted tomb in Egyptian history
- Rahotep and Nofret were found at
- Meidum
- Hierakonpolis
- city of Horus
- Dashur pyramids were
- Bent pyramid and the Red pyramid
- Menes
- a king that is probably Narmer. Both are the same person
- chaos
- imbalance in personal life & the universe
- Nekhbet
- vulture goddess
- 1st king of Egypt
- Narmer
- first found in the funerary precincts of King Zoser of the 3rd Dynasty
- Serdab
- Upper crown
- White
- Nagada
- cemetary and very important religious area
- these types of burials stopped in Dynasty 2
- servant burials
- Horus
- Falcon or Hawk god
- name of the underworld
- Duat
- Narmer
- Unified Egypt
- Specifically royal gods
- Wadjet and Nekhbet
- Flows South to North and empties into the Mediterranean Sea
- Nile River
- war club
- mace head
- year Napoleon came to Egypt
- 1798
- 1st known king to marry a Northern woman
- King Khasekemwy
- The nekhbet symbolizes
- Southern/Upper Egypt
- 2,600 BCE
- Giza pyramids
- Nome
- term for the administrative unites into which Egypt had been divided since the 3rd Dynasty.
- Language commonly used in reference to Ancient Egypt
- Greek
- Wadjet
- cobra goddess
- famous cemetary
- Giza
- smiter pose
- to hit someone over the head
- Home of Osiris
- Abydos
- northern plant
- papyrus
- 9 gods
- The Great Ennead
- northern royal cemetary
- Saqqara
- god of Nekhen
- Horus
- 5 official royal titles
- Horus, Nebti, Golden Horus, Throne name, Birth name
- God represented by a hound
- Seth
- put burial
- hole in the ground
- Khafre's son
- Menkaure
- The Wadjet symbolizes
- Northern/Lower Egypt
- Napoleon
- brought Egypt to the world
- Step pyramid builder
- Zoser
- Herodotus
- wrote a travelogue on Egypt
- Predynastic
- before 3100 BCE
- white crown
- Upper Egypt/South
- cartouche
- oval that contains the name of a king
- Pre-Dynastic Ruler
- Scorpion King
- ankh
- shape that means life
- stele with king's name
- serekh
- Lower crown
- Red
- God who protects Re
- Seth
- Serekh
- it has a palace facade
- Osiris
- God of the dead
- Double crown
- ruler of both lands
- southern Egypt
- Upper Egypt
- Red Crown
- Lower Egypt/North
- Cenotaph
- empty tomb
- Imhotep was
- an architect and high priest of Heliopolis
- god who stood for world order
- Horus
- Silt
- black mud
- Oldest Southern cemetary
- Nagada
- believed to be the entrance to the West
- Abydos
- 1st Giza King
- Khufu
- Northern Egypt
- Lower Egypt
- standard
- flag
- known as "the mighty bull"
- Narmer
- Nehken
- city of Hierakonpolis; was the god of this city
- Nome hieroglyphs
- a symbol allocated to most nomes that was directly related to the local divinity worshipped there. Set on a standard and considered to represent divinity
- Dynasty 0, Hierakonpolis
- Scorpion King Macehead
- 1st major builder king
- King Khasekemwy
- Ptah
- god of Memphis
- Black Land
- KMT
- Mastaba
- common tomb form
- The Lotus is a plant of the
- South
- Queen Merneith
- Queen buried with 2 tombs
- lapwings
- birds at the top of the macehead hanging from ropes; symbolize captured or conquered enemies
- Hetepheres
- Daughter of Huni, married Snefru
- Serdab
- completely enclosed chamber containing one or serveral statues of a person
- Nagada
- earliest cemetery
- Two ladies
- Nebty
- Egyptian priest who divides Egyptian history in to 30 dynasties
- Manetho
- Nebty
- two ladies
- King's jubilee
- hebsed
- Khufu's Son
- Khafre
- Papyrus grew thickly here
- Delta
- Built the 1st true pyramid
- Snefru
- Kentiamentu
- god absorbed by Osiris
- Inundation
- flood
- moumia
- arabic origin for resin/sticky substance used to wrap cloth around body
- Red Land
- desert
- cataracts
- greek term for the rapids in the southern, Nubian part of the Nile valley