History 270.001

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. If you find any terms do not appear in your notes on the date mentioned, check your notes for one class date earlier or later.

Week of February 27 and March 1:

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• Annals of Thutmose III
• battle of Megiddo
• canal-cutter
• corvée (labor system)
• cylinder seals
• Egyptian hydraulics
• First Intermediate period
• Heracleopolis
• Instructions to Merikare
• Jezrael valley (Asdraelon)
• logistics
• Megiddo
• Memphis
• nomarchs
• nomes
• Old Kingdom
• Pepi I
• Pepi II
• per-`aa ("great house", pharaoh)
• pyramid building & state formatiom
• Thebes
• Thutmose III

Midterm Break: No Classes

Midterm grades available on Cougar Trail (3/13)
• Amenemhat I
• architectonic
• Horus (god)
• Horus name
• Horus of Gold name
• Instructions of Amenemhat
• ma'at
• Middle Kingdom
• Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II
• nisut-bity (lit., "He of the Sedge, He of the Bee" = King of Upper and Lower Egypt)
• nomen (son of Ra-name)
• prenomen (king of Upper & Lower Egypt-name)
• pseudepigraphia
• royal titulary
• Two Ladies name

• Afro-Asiatic family of languages
• Berber
• biliteral hieroglyphs
• Chadic
• Coptic
• Demotic
• determinative
• ethnology vs. ethnicity
• hieratic
• hieroglyphs
• ideogram (= determinative)
• Kushitic
• Late Egyptian
• Middle Egyptian
• Old Egyptian
• phonogram
• rebus principle
• root vs. scheme
• semite
• semitic
• tri-consonantal root system
• triliteral hieroglyphs
• uniliteral hieroglyphs (= alphabetic signs)

• acrophony (principle)
• Archaic Egyptian
• biliteral hieroglyphs
• corvée system
• diachronic changes
• dialectical changes
• Egyptian education
• initiation
• phyle (temple watch)
• rebus principle
• rites of passage (scribal initiation)
• sesh ("scribe")
• triliteral hieroglyphs
• uniliteral hieroglyphs (= alphabetic signs)

• analein (Gr., "to separate" = analysis)
• Aristotle's laws of analysis
• dilemma of western rationalism
• law of non-contradiction
• law of the excluded middle
• law of identity
• multiplicity of understandings
• Opet Festival
• partitive vs. additive thinking
• tutelary deity

• Apophis
• Book of Amduat ("What is in the Netherworld")
• Book of Gates
• Book of the Dead
• democratization of the afterlife
• Duat (= "netherworld")
• heka (= "creative power", magic)
• hekau ("magician")
• mortuary religion.
• netherworld
• personal religion
• pylon
• Ra (Re)
• state religion

Term paper due (4/10)
• Amun-Kamutef
• Amun-Ra
• avenue of sphinxes
• boat procession
• ka (spiritual double; life force)
• Karnak temple
• Knonsu
• Luxor temple (temple of "Amun in His Southern Resting Place")
• Montu
• mulid (birthday-feast) of Sheikh Abu'l-Hajaj
• Mut
• mystery religion
• mysticism
• Opet ("resting place")
• Opet Festival
• portable bark shrine
• Sheikh Abu'l-Hajaj
• sufi/sufism

Last day of class (4/19)
• consanguineous marriage
• hem (lit., "person" = servant, slave)
• hemet ("wife", woman")
• Horus
• ma'at
• remetj ("man")
• remtjet ("men, people, humanity")
• role of the king
• self-enslavement contract
• sen (lit., "second" = male counterpart, brother, husband, fellow)
• senet (lit., "second" = female counterpart, sister, wife)
• seshet or sesh-sehemet ("female scribe")
• slavery
• social class system

Reading Day (4/24)