A BLOG ABOUT A STUDY GUIDE FOR A STORY CALLED TEST 5!!!! (RALPH STILL GETS GIRLY COLORS!!!) =D

Jo=Green
Ralph= purple

Sahara: World's Largest Desert

Nile: World's Largest River

Egypt: IS IN THE CORNER OF AFRICA; CALLED THE SEEDBED OF AFRICAN CULTURE

MIZRAIM: MOST ANCIENT NAME OF EGYPT: ONE OF HAM'S SON'S Names;

Land of Ham: EGYPT NAMED IN THE BIBLE

Nomes: A NUMBER OF SMALL STATES IN EARLY EGYPT

Pharaohs: STRONG RULERS; DIVIDED NOMES INTO LOWER/UPPER EGYPT

Menes: THE 1st PHARAOH OF EGYPT; UNITED UPPER?LOWER EGYPT

"The Gift of the Nile": THE NILE IS NEEDED SO EGYPT WOULDN"T BE AN EVERYWHERE DESERT. =O

Hieroglyphics: EGYPTIAN WRITING

Book of the Dead: MOST IMPORTANT EGYPTIAN WORK; IT WAS PLACED IN TOMBS. :D

Memphis: AN IMPORTANT CITY; KNOWN AS NOPH IN HEBREW BIBLE

Thebes: MEANS THE CITY OF THE DEAD; NOTHING REMAINS OF IT EXCEPT THE VAST NECROPOLIS

Necropolis: A VERY LARGE CEMETERY BELONGING TO AN ANCIENT CITY

Pyramid: A TOMB MADE FOR PHARAOHS

Monarchy: THE RULING OF A KING AND/OR A QUEEN

Theocracy: PRIESTS RULE IN THE NAME OF GOD OR A GOD

HUMANISM: THE WORSHIP OF "MAN"

NATURALSIM: THEY WORSHIPED "FORCES OF NATURE"

POLYTHEISM: THE BELIEF OF THOUSANDS OF "GODS OR GODDESSES"

EGYPTIAN TOMBS: PYRAMIDS

GREAT PYRAMID OF CHEOPS: One of the WONDERS OF THE WORLD;
took 100,000 workers NEARLY 20 YEARS to construct the pyramid

KING TUT: TEENAGE PHARAOH; DIED AT AGE 18 =O

MUMMIFIFCATION: THE PROCESS OF PRESERVING A DEAD BODY (PREFERABLY A PHARAOH)

30 DYNASTIES: ANCIENT HISTORY WAS DIVIDED INTO THESE

OLD KINGDOM: DYNASTIES 3-6; THE 3 IMPORTANT MONARCHS WERE:
1. Cheops
2. Khafre
3. Menkaure

PYRAMIDS AT GIZA: BUILT BY THE 3 PHARAOHS FROM THE OLD KINGDOM

GREAT SPHINX: BEARS THE LIKENESS OF ; HEAD OF A MAN AND BODY OF A LION

MIDDLE KINGDOM: 11TH DYNASTY; KING MENTUHOTEP I; ESTABLISHED CAPITAL AT THEBES

KING MENUHOTEP I: RULED DURING THE 11TH DYNASTY; ESTABLISHED CAPITAL AT THEBES

HYKSOS: Asiatic WARRIORS; CONQUERED the Middle Kingdom; They had chariots and and horses

AHMOSE I: PHARAOH WHO FOUNDED THE 18TH DYNASTY

NEW KINGDOM: 18TH-20TH DYNASTIES; KING AHMOSE I; DROVE THE HYKSOS OUT OF EGYPT

HATSHEPSHUT: THE ONLY FEMALE PHARAOH (WHOA!!! O_O)

AMENHOTEP II: THUTMOSE III=RULER; AMENHOTEP= THUT’S SON; may have been Pharaoh during the Exodus

LATER NEW KINGDOM: RULED BY RAMSES II

RAMSES II: MOST OUTSTANDING EGYPTIAN MONARCH

ALEXANDER THE GREAT: ANCIENT ROMAN KING; MADE ONE OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST EMPIRES; FOUNDED ALEXANDRIA IN 332 B.C

ALEXANDRIA: THE CHIEF PORT OF EGYPT; IT WAS A MAJOR CENTER OF HELLENISTIC CULTURE; REOWNED FOR ITS LIBRARY AND PHAROS LIGHTHOUSE

LIGHTHOUSE OF ALEXANDRIA: A TOWER BUILT IN THE 3RD CENTURY BC BETWEEN 285 AND 247 ON THE ISLAND OF PHAROS TO SERVE AS A PORT LANDMARK.