History 270.080
Spring 2003
last update: 02/06/03
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 were defined in class or were written on the class blackboard.
- Akkadians
- Elephantine
- ma'at
- manetho
- Menes
- Musru ("Far Land," Egypt)
- Nabataeans
- nome/momarch
- Petra
- remetj ("man")
- semites
- Sirius
- Ta-Mehu ("Northland," Lower Egypt)
- Ta-Shemau ("Sedgeland,"Upper Egypt)
- wadi (valley)
- zepat ("nome")
land & geography:
- basin irrigation
- deshret ("Red land," desert)
- Kemet ("Black land," Egypt)
- Nile inundation
historical précis:
- First Intermediate period
- Khafre
- Khufu
- Late Period
- Manetho
- Menkaure
- Middle Kingdom
- Narmer Palette
- New Kingdom
- Old Kingdom
- Predynastic period
- Second Intermediate Period
Nubia:
- Amenemhat I
- Buhen
- First cataract
- Kerma
- Kumma
- Kush
- Second Cataract
- Semna
- Sesostris III
- slipway
- Afro-asiatic languages
- Afro-asiatic proto-language
- Berber
- biliterals
- Chadic
- Coptic
- Cushitic
- Demotic
- determinatives
- development of alphabet
- Egyptian
- hamitic
- hieratic
- hieroglyphs (hieroglyphic writing)
- ideograms
- Late Egyptian
- Middle Egyptian
- Old Egyptian
- ostraca
- papyrus
- Philae temple
- phonograms
- Proto-Sinaitic writing
- rebus principle
- root
- scheme
- Semitic
- syllabary
- tri-consonantal root
- triliterals
- uniliterals
write your name in hieroglyphs:
https://www.iut.univ-paris8.fr/~rosmord/nomhiero.html
scribal tradition and educational system:
- Book of Kemyt
- "chamber of instruction"
- government schools
- House of Life
- "house of books"
- lay priesthood
- onomastica
- palace schools
- Satire on the Trades
- secret knowledge
- social initiation
- temple schools
- the Miscellanies
social structure:
- Atum
- Battle of Kadesh
- class structure
- corporate personality of the state
- creation myth
- Deir el-Medina
- el-Lahun
- lower class
- ma'at/Ma'at
- middle class
- order vs. chaos
- royal responsibilities
- royal ideology
- self-enslavement
- slavery
- upper class
- workmen's communities
Midterm Exam: 2/11
- "church-state" relations
- civil temples
- corvée labor system
- Divine Votaress of Amun
- exemption decrees
- galena
- government estates
- Herihor
- high priest of Amun (First Prophet)
- land tenure
- money economy
- mortuary temples
- Nauri Decree
- Nesubanebdjed (= King Smendes)
- Per-Ramesses
- pious foundations
- private domain
- private estates
- Ramesses XI
- redistributive economy
- reversion of funerary offerings
- royal domain
- subsistence economy
- suppression of the high priest of Amun
- Tanis
- temple economy
- temple domain
- Deir el-Medina
- Hermopolis Law Code
- imyet-per, "house document"
- Inscription of Mes
- kourios
- marriage contract
- medical annuity
- Mes (Mose)
- Naunakhte
- Nubnefret
- Ramesses III
- self-enslavement
- Takharu
- Werenra
- Will of Naunakhte
- "Sun-eye"
- Apis Bull
- Apopi (Apophis)
- Birth-Room
- Book of Overthrowing Apopi
- Deir el-Bahari
- Feast of the Valley
- Hathor
- Mickey Mantle
- Sakhmet
- seker-hemat, Batting the Ball
- Seth (the "Elder Magician)
- Tefnut
- Thutmose III