History 270.001
Spring 2002
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.
Click on any past class date in this calendar to access the terms for that week.
- Atum
- Elphantine
- Heliopolis
- Horus
- Lower Egypt
- ma'at
- Nile Inundation
- Orion
- Osiris
- pharaoh
- Ra
- Sirius (=Sothis/Sopdet)
- Upper Egypt
- Abydos
- Alexandria
- cline
- Delta
- deshret, "red Land" = desert
- "Dynastic race"
- Elephantine
- ethnology vs. ethnicity
- Huy (vizier of Tutankhamun)
- Karnak Temple
- Kemet, "Black Land" = Egypt
- Lower Egypt
- Luxor
- Memphis
- mortuary temple
- Nilotic (physical type)
- nomarch
- nome
- Nubia
- Phineas
- "pure race theory"
- racial diffusion
- Ta-Mehu, "Northland" = Lower Egypt
- Ta-Shemau, "Sedgeland" = Upper Egypt
- Thebes
- "There are no races, only clines."
- Upper Egypt
- akhet, inundation (season)
- Battle of Actium
- cattle census dating
- civil (solar) calendar
- epagomenal days (5)
- First Intermediate Period
- heliacal rising
- Hyksos
- Julian Calendar
- Kushite Period
- Late Period
- lunar calendar
- Middle Kingdom
- Month of Thoth
- New Kingdom
- Old Kingdom
- Palermo Stone
- peret, winter ("seed")
- regnal year dating
- Sais
- Saite Period
- Second Intermediate Period
- shemu, summer
- Sirius (Sothis/Sopdet)
- Abydos
- Amratian culture (= Nagada I)
- Archaic Period
- Badaran culture
- cenotaph
- early Sumerian influences
- Egyptian unification
- Fayum A culture
- Gerzean culture (= Nagada II-III)
- Hierakonpolis
- Horus Aha (= Nebty Menes?)
- Ineb-hedj, "White Walls" (= Memphis)
- inhumation
- King Scorpion
- mastaba
- Memphis
- Menes (Meni)
- Nagada
- Narmer
- Narmer Palette
- Neolithic Era
- nisut-bity, "King of Upper and Lower Egypt"
- Paermo Stone
- Predynastic Period
- proto-kingdom
- Scorpion Macehead
- stratigraphy
- Ta-mery, "Land of the 2 Riverbanks"
- Tawy, "Two Lands"
- Temple of Ptah, South of his Walls
- Abydos
- Archaic Period
- corvée labor
- Djoser
- Giza
- Horus Khasekhem
- Horus-Seth Khasekhemwy
- Imhotep
- Mark Lehner
- mortuary temple
- Old Kingdom
- pyramidion
- Saqqara
- Seth Rebellion
- Seth-Peribsen
- Step Pyramid Complex
- step pyramid
- valley temple
- Autobiography of Weni
- cartouche
- Djoser
- Famine Stela
- Hapy
- Horus
- Imhotep
- incubating dreams
- Instructions of Ptahhotep
- Isis
- Khafre
- Khnum
- Khufu
- Ma'at
- Menkaure
- royal titulary (king's titles)
- serekh
- "Son of Re"
- the "Two Ladies"
- Abydos
- Ankhtify of Moalla
- Coptos
- Deir el-Medina
- Deir el-Gebrawi
- Egyptian social structure
- fall of Old Kingdom
- First Intermediate Period
- Hekanakht
- Heracleopolis
- Mentuhotep II
- Merer of Edfu
- nomarchs
- nomes
- Pepi II
- slavery
- Teti
- Thebes
- Weni
- workmen's village
- casement stones
- Circumpolar Stars
- corbelling
- core blocks
- Mark Lehner
- Orion
- Polaris (star)
- pyramid of Khufu
- pyramid orientation
- pyramid ramp
- sledge
- Sopdet (Sothis/Sirius)
- "soul shafts" (not air shafts!)
- theories of pyramid building
- Tura (quarry)
- Zahi Hawass
- Amenemhat I
- Instructions of Amenemhat
- Itjytawy (city)
- Kush
- loyalist teachings
- Medjay(u)
- Mentuhotep II
- Middle Kingdom
- Nubia
- (political) reforms of Sesostris III
- Second Cataract
- Semna and Kumma
- Sesostris I
- Sesostris III
- "Walls of the Ruler"
- waret
- Hermopolis Law Code
- imyet-per ("house document")
- Inscription of Mes
- Instructions of Any
- Instructions of Ptahhotep
- kourios
- Mes
- Neshi
- Papyrus Westcar
- status of women
- Tale of Two Brothers
- Werenra
- Will of Naunakht
- womens' inheritance rights
- Afro-Asiatic Languages
- Åkerblad
- biliterals
- Coptic
- decipherment of Egyptian
- demotic writing
- diacritical marks
- evolution of alphabet
- Ft. Julien
- hieroglyphs (hieroglyphic writing system)
- Jean-François Champollion
- logogram (=determinative)
- phonogram
- Phoenician alphabet
- Proto-Canaanite alphabet
- Proto-Sinaitic alphabet
- root
- Rosetta Stone
- scheme
- Thomas Young
- tri-consonantal root system
- triliterals
- uniliterals (alphabetic signs)
- biliterals
- Demotic (phase)
- diachronic vs. dialectical change
- hieratic writing
- Late Egyptian
- logogram (=determinative)
- Middle Egyptian
- Old Egyptian
- phases of Egyptian language
- phonogram
- triliterals
- uniliterals (alphabetic signs)
| Note to class: I meant it when I said that I really enjoyed teaching this class. You were great students, fun to teach and good to have in class. I hope that you came away with at least some understanding of the otherness of ancient Egyptian society and a sense of not judging ancient non-western societies according to modern western values. Dw3.i n.tn ntr (thank you), and have a great summer!
-- Prof. P.
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