History 270.001
Spring 2000
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 week.

* * * SPRING 2000 * * *
January February March April
Tues Thurs Tues Thurs Tues Thurs Tues Thurs
0 0 1 3 0 2 0 0
0 0 8 10 SPRING BREAK 4 6
0 13 15 17 14 16 11 13
18 20 22 24 21 23 18 20
25 27 midterm 0 28 30 25 0
January 18 and 20:return to page top
  • Arabian Desert (= Red Sea Hills or Eastern Desert)
  • Deshret, the "Red Land,"
  • Inundation
  • Kemet, "Black Land"
  • Libyan Desert
  • Lower Egypt
  • Memphis
  • Nile Delta
  • Nile River
  • nomarch
  • nome
  • Nubia
  • Ta-Mehu, "Northland" (= Lower Egypt)
  • Ta-Mery, "Land of the 2 Riverbanks"
  • Ta-Shemau, "Sedgeland" (= Upper Egypt)
  • Thebes
  • Upper Egypt
January 25 and 27:return to page top
  • Aper-el (vizier)
  • canopic jars
  • epigraphy
  • Horemheb
  • Maya (treasurer)
  • Memphis
  • Nile River
  • philology
  • Ramesses II (king)
  • Rosetta Stone
  • Saqqara
  • sarcophagus
  • shabty (ushabty)
  • Survey of Memphis
  • Temple of Karnak
  • Temple of Luxor
  • Temple of Ptah (Memphis)
  • temple pylon
  • Tutankhamun (king)
February 1 and 3:return to page top
  • Heqanakht
  • "Letters of Heqanakht"
  • "Tale of Sinuhe"
  • Sinuhe

  • Archaic Period
  • dynasty
  • Dynasty 0
  • First Intermediate Period
  • Hierakonpolis
  • Hyksos (hekau-khasut), "Rulers of Foreign Lands"
  • Kingdom of Lower Egypt
  • Kingdom of Upper Egypt
  • Manetho
  • mastaba
  • Middle Kingdom
  • New Kingdom
  • Old Kingdom
  • pyramid building
  • Second Intermediate Period
  • unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
February 8 and 10:return to page top
  • Alexander the Great
  • Assyrian Domination
  • Kush
  • Kushite Era
  • Late Period
  • Ptolemaic Period
  • Third Intermediate Period

  • Coptic
  • decipherment of Egyptian
  • demotic language and script
  • hieroglyphs (hieroglyphic writing)
  • Jean François Champollion
  • Rosetta Stone
  • Thomas Young

  • Afro-Asiatic Languages
  • Afro-asiatic Proto-language
  • Nostratic Language
  • Old Egyptian
  • Middle Egyptian
  • Late Egyptian
  • Demotic
  • Coptic
  • triconsonantal root system
  • root
  • scheme
  • dialectical changes in language
  • diachronic changes in language
  • hieratic writing
  • hieroglyphic writing
February 15 and 17:return to page top
  • biliteral hieroglyphs
  • determinatives
  • ideograms (pictograms)
  • literacy rates
  • palace schools
  • phonograms
  • rebus principle
  • scribal school/education
  • temple schools
  • triliteral hieroglyphs
  • uniliteral hieroglyphs
February 22:return to page top
  • funerary cones/bricks
  • ostraca
  • scarab beetle (Khepri)
  • scarabs
  • udjat-eye (Eye of Horus)

  • Book of Kemyt
  • List of the Keftiu Names
  • onomastica
February 24:return to page top
March 2:return to page top
March 14 and 16:return to page top
March 21 and 23:return to page top
March 28 and 30:return to page top
April 4 and 6:return to page top
April 11 and 13:return to page top
April 18 and 20:return to page top
April 25:return to page top