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Geography

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750 mile Nile w/ floods in Fall–12 mile fertile zone around it. Nile floods when they see Sothis.

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Metal Trade

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Increased

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Afterlife

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trying to recombine ka (spirit) and ba (personality) in underworld, then live normal life in afterlife, after being judged by Osiris
Pharoah is Horus among people while alive, Osiris when dead. Had a pharaoh name and a Horus name

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ship stuff

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Built and took apart ships on Red Sea

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mentality

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everything is cyclical, emphasis on sun. Temples on east, tombs and pyramids on west of Nile. Pharaohs live regimented life to keep ma’at. bad things blamed on him

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Dating

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1 day every four years is off. dating is inaccurate to 1460 years

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ma’at

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balance–weighed against a “feather” in judgement

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cracking hieroglyphics

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Rosetta Stone (huh). Greek, hieroglyphic, and demotic (hieroglyphic)–triliteral, bilingual. found 1790s Napoleon, translated by Jean Francois Champollion

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Manetho

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priest during Ptolemaic period, creating dynastic record.

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Dynasties 1 and 2

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Menes (Narmer) and the “White Wall” of Cairo/Memphis. unites halves of Egypt

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Old Kingdom

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2700-2200–pyramid builders. Dynasties 3 (Djoser) and 4 (builders Khufu Khafre Menkaure)

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pharaoh

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“guy who lives in the big house”

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vizier

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second in command, but ran the show since the pharaohs are always doing rituals and such (Joseph)

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Nomes

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Old Kingdom gov’t districts–22 upper, 20 lower, ruled by nomarchs

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First Intermediate Period

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2200-2000–civil conflict

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Middle Kingdom

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2000-1700. Dynasty 12, founded by warrior from Thebes. Osiris story.

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Second Intermediate Period

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1700-1550. Delta occupied by semitic Hyksos–connection with Hebrews?