History 233.001
Fall 1999
Names, Places
and Important Terms to Remember
This page contains series of listings of names, places, and terms that were mentioned in class as part of discussions or lectures, and which are deemed important enough for students to remember and to consider as they review for exams and quizzes. These terms are listed here chronologically according to the date in which they occurred in class or were written on the class blackboard.
Click on any past class date in this calendar to access the terms for that day.
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midterm | 7 |
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- Arabian Desert (= Red Sea Hills or Eastern Desert)
- Aswan High Dam
- Basin Irrigation
- Blue Nile
- Hapy (deity)
- high water canalization
- Inundation
- Kagera River
- Lake Tana (Ethiopia)
- Lake Victoria (Uganda)
- Libyan Desert
- Nile River
- shaduf
- White Nile
- Blue Nile
- Egyptian taxation
- Elephantine
- Hapy (deity)
- Hymn to the Nile (Hapy)
- Kemet, "Black Land"
- Khnum (deity)
- Memphis
- Nile Delta
- nilometer
- nomarch
- nome
- Nubia
- Sudan
- el-Sudd
- Ta-Mehu, "Northland" (= Lower Egypt)
- Ta-Mery, "Land of the 2 Riverbanks"
- Ta-Shemau, "Sedgeland" (= Upper Egypt)
- White Nile
See instructors' recapitulation of lecture, "Prehistory of the Nile Valley and the Sahara Desert"
- Abydos
- agricultural revolution
- Aterian Industry
- atl-atl (spear-projector)
- Eastern Desert (= Red Sea Hills)
- Elephantine
- geomorphology
- el-Sudd marsh
- Heliopolis
- Hierakonpolis
- Khor Musa
- Khormusan Industry
- Lower Palaeolithic (= Early Palaeolithic): Acheulean Industry
- Lower Egypt
- Memphis
- Middle Palaeolithic: Mousterian Industry
- Neo-Nile River
- Neolithic
- Pliocene Sea
- pluvial periods
- Prenile River
- Proto-Nile River
- Qada Culture
- Sahara Desert
- Thebes
- Upper Egypt
- Upper Palaeolithic (= Late Palaeolithic)
- Western Desert (= Libyan Desert)
- cline
- craniometry
- dynastic race
- ethnicity
- ethnology
- eugenics
- local environmental adaptation
- Race Anthropology
- racial diffusion
- William Fl. Petrie
- archaeology
- biological anthropology
- epigraphy
- Herodotus
- historiography
- Manetho
- palaodemography
- palaeopathology
- papyrology
- philology
- agricultural revolution
- Amratian Culture (= Nagada I)
- Badarian Culture
- Bronze Age
- Early Gerzean Culture (= Nagada II)
- Fayum A Culture
- flint knapping
- flint tools
- Later Gerzean Culture (= Nagada III)
- Merimde Culture
- Mesolithic Era
- metalworking
- microlith
- Neolithic Era
- Predynastic Period
- Wm. Flinders Petrie
- Amun-Ra
- Archaic Period
- dynasty
- First Intermediate Period
- Hyksos (hekau-khasut), "Rulers of Foreign Lands"
- Late Period
- Manetho
- Middle Kingdom
- New Kingdom
- Old Kingdom
- Palermo Stone
- Ptolemaic Period
- Ptolemy II
- Second Intermediate Period
- Temple of Karnak
- Turing King-List
- Abydos
- Alexander the Great (= Alexander III)
- Alexander IV
- Amratian Culture
- Assyrian Domination
- Cleopatra VII
- Gebel el-Arak Knife Handle
- Gerzean Period
- Hierakonpolis
- Hierakonpolis Tomb 100
- Khor Bahan
- Kingdom of Lower Egypt
- Kingdom of Upper Egypt
- Kingdom of the Nubian A-Group
- Kush
- Kushite Era
- Late Period
- Nagada
- Nubian A-Group Culture
- Ptolemy Lagus (= Ptolemy I)
- Thinis (This)
- Third Intermediate Period
- Aha (king)
- Archaic Period
- Dynasty 0
- en (Sumerian priest-king)
- Hierakonpolis
- Khasekhem/Khasekhemwy (king)
- Memphis
- Menes (king)
- Mesopotamia
- Narmer Palette
- Narmer (king)
- Nebka (king)
- niched-panel facades
- Nimaathapy (queen)
- Palermo Stone
- Peribsen (king)
- Scorpion (king)
- Scorpion Macehead
- Seth Rebellion
- unification (political)
- Wadi Hammamat
- circumcision
- corvée labor
- Giza pyramids
- literacy
- magician
- priestly service
- pyramid building
- scribal school/education
- sidelock of youth
- workmen's cemetery (Giza)
- workmen's village (Giza)
- religious inititiation
- social inititiation (rites of passage)
- Battle of Kadesh
- benben-stone
- Bent Pyramid (of Snefru)
- corporate personality of the state
- Djoser
- Famine Stela
- Horus
- Huni
- Imhotep
- ma'at
- mastaba
- Medum
- Old Kingdom
- pious foundations (funerary estates)
- pyramid building & state formation
- Pyramid of Medum (Destroyed Pyramid of Huni/Snefru)
- pyramids
- Red Pyramid (of Snefru)
- redistributive economy
- Saqqara
- Sed Festival
- sema-tawy
- Snefru
- Step Pyramid Complex of Djoser
- exemption decrees
- famine
- Heliopolis
- hereditary transmission of office
- Khafre (Chephren)
- Khufu (Cheops)
- Menkaure (Mycernius)
- Merenre II
- Merenre I
- mortuary temple
- nomarch
- nome
- Old Kingdom
- Pepi I
- Pepi II
- pyramid complex
- Pyramid Texts
- Queen Nitocris
- Queen Khentykaues
- Ra
- Teti
- Unas
- Userkare
- valley temple
- Weni
- Admonitions of Ipuwer
- Amun
- Ankhtifi of Moalla
- Antef I
- Coffin Texts
- Coptos
- Deir el-Bahari
- democratization of the afterlife
- Dispute of a Man with His Ba
- exemption decrees
- First Intermediate Period
- Heracleopolis
- Instructions to Merikare
- Lamentations of Khakhepereseneb
- Medjayu
- Merer of Edfu
- Merikare
- Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II
- Thebes
- Amenemhat III
- Amenemhat I
- Avaris
- Ba'al/Seth
- coregent (coregency)
- Hyksos (hekau-khasut)
- Instructions of Amenemhat
- Itjy-tawy
- Kerma
- Kingdom of Kush
- Middle Kingdom
- Nubia
- Prophecies of Neferti
- Queen Sebekneferu
- Second Intermediate Period
- Semna
- Sesostris III
- Sesostris I
- Thebes
- "Walls of the Ruler"
- waret
- Thebes
- Amenhotep, son of Hapu (Amenothes)
- civil temples
- Contendings of Horus and Seth
- funerary cult
- Imhotep (Imouthes = Aesclepius)
- Isis
- Memphite Theology
- mortuary temples
- mortuary religion
- multiplicities of understanding
- Osiris
- personal religion
- Seth
- state religion
- akh
- ba
- heka, "creative power" (magic)
- ka
- Kerma
- Kush
- Lower Nubia
- Nubia
- Second Cataract
- Semna
- space and time (in Egyptian thought)
- Upper Nubia
- Wawat
- Ahmose I
- Avaris
- consanguineous marriage
- Hyksos
- Kamose
- Kamose Stelae
- Karnak Temple
- Queen Ahhotep
- Queen Ahmes-Nefertari
- Queen Tetisheri
- Senakhtenre Tao I
- Seqenenre Tao II
- Sharuhen
- Ahmosid/Tuthmosid collateral branches
- Amenhotep I
- Amenhotep II
- Amun-Ra
- Deir el-Bahari
- New Kingdom
- Princess Neferure
- Queen Ahmes-Nefertari
- Queen Hatshepsut
- Tuthmosis I
- Tuthmosis III
- Valley of the Kings
- Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV)
- Akhetaten (el-Amarna)
- Amarna Period
- Amarna Letters
- Amenhotep II
- Amenhotep III
- Aten
- deification of Amenhotep III
- Hymn to the Aten
- Kingdom of Mitanni
- Queen Nefertiti
- Queen Tiye
- Ra
- Re-Horakhty
- Sed Festival
- Thebes
- Yuya and Tjuya
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