Chapter 5 Review

People:

Copts- Hamitic people who blended with Semetic and Japhetic Peoples of the Mediterranean world
Herodotus- The Greek Father of History (485-425BC)
menes- United the two bstates and became the first Pharaoh of all Egypt
Jean Francois Champollion- Able to decipher hieroglyphics with other scholar
King tutankhamen- Teenage pharaoh who died at 18
Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure- Three outstanding monarchs of the old kingdom
Mentuhotep1- Reunited two lands and paved the way for the Middle Kingdom and the powerful 12 Dynasty
Hyksos- Asiatic warriors
Ahmose1- Theban price who founded the New Kingdom
Hatshepsut- Could be Moses' foster mother, strong willed daughter of Thutmose1
Thutmose3- Extended Egypts border to their farthest extent and brought the Egyptian Empire to its greatest height
Amenhotep2- May have been pharaoh during the Hebrew exodus
Ramses2- Most outstanding monarch, fought the Hittites in Asia and sponsored much building activity
Ptolemy- Gained controll of Egypt and established a Hellenistic dynasty that ruled entil Cleopatras suicide
Gamal Abdel Nasser- First president when Egypt became a monarchy in 1953
Anwar el-Sadat- One of the most admired heroes of modern day Europe
Hosni Mubarak- Succeeded Sadet as president of Europe

Places:

Africa- 2nd largest continent
Isthmus of Suez- once connected Africa to Asia
Mizraim- Name of Hams son
Lower Egypt- Nile Delta
Upper Egypt- From Delta near Memphis to the 1st Cataract south of Thebes
Nile Delta- A rich, alluvial plain of fertile soil
Great Pyramids of Cheops- One of the wonders of the world, located at Giza