Monday, September 14, 2009

Ch.5 section review 1/2 and game

  1. Africa; the Sahara Desert and the Nile River
  2. North-eastern corner of Africa
  3. The Land of Ham and Mizraim
  4. all african culture started there
  5. Upper-located from the delta near Memphis to the first cataractsouth of Thebes. Lower-the nile delta. menes
  6. near the nile river
  7. it was the greatest and the most magnificent power of the anciet world.
  8. without the flood waters and fertile soil deposited by the nile each year egypt would be a wasteland.
  9. it was a mix language of both hamitic and semitic elements/champollion
  10. memphis and thebes
  11. the pyramids because it represented a single divine order to the ancient egyptians.
  12. they were humanist,natuarlis,polytheist,they saw no distinction between the creator and his creation.

Identify:

  • Isthmus of suez-canal seperated two continents.
  • Copts-hamitic people who blended with people of the mediterranean world
  • Nomes-small states
  • Herodotus-father of history
  • Nile Delta-alluvial plain of fertile soil.
  • Heiroglyphics-the egyptian writing form
  • book of the dead-told them where their spirits would travel to.
  • necropolis-city of the dead.
  • great pyramid of cheops-one of the wonders of the world.
  • thutankhamen-he was the teenage pharaoh
  • mummication-preservation of the bodiesof the dead.

Game-

Brianne-%50

Harley-%45

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