New Kingdom Egypt

New KingdomThe temple and empire builders

New Kingdom EgyptThe invading ________ ruled until 1570 B.C. Around 1600B.C. Egyptians drove the Hyksos out and established the____________ which lasted from 1570-1075 B.C. Around1570 B.C., the world’s first _________ ruler came to power. _____________ spent her reign expelling the Hyksos fromEgypt. Around 1472 B.C. another ________ ruler came topower –_________________. Queen Hatshepsut actuallytook the title of __________. She commissioned sculpturesthat portrayed her with a masculine figure as she attemptedto consolidate power. She spent her reign encouraging_______ instead of fighting.

Hyksos

New Kingdomfemale

Queen Ahotepfemale

Queen Hatshepsutpharaoh

trade

Around 1425 B.C. the pharaohs began to focus on_______________. The Pharaoh Thutmose III went ____________________________ into ________ andconquered it. Kush, also called _________, was anindependent kingdom ________ of Egypt. It becamepart of ________________ Egypt with the conquests ofThutmose III. The people of _____ began to__________________________which means that theyworshipped Egyptian gods and learned to write in_________________. Kushite princes even began tothink of themselves as ______________ princes.

empire buildingbeyond the First Cataract Nubia

Nubiasouth

New KingdomNubia

adopt Egyptian culture

hieroglyphicsEgyptian

Meroë

Kush

New Kingdom pharaohs did not build largepyramids. Instead, they _______________ in_____ walls and______________. Most NewKingdom pharaohs lie entombed in the_______________________ near Thebes in__________________ The most famous ofthese pharaohs is King _________________whose tomb was found unplundered. The goldand bejeweled _____________ found in KingTut’s tomb speak to the great ____________ ofNew Kingdom pharaohs.

built small tombscave underground

Valley of the KingsUpper Egypt

Tutankhamen

artifactswealth

Valley of the Kings

Another famous pharaoh, __________________, mayhave been the pharaoh during the time of the Hebrew_________. During the reign of Ramses II, many grand__________ were constructed. The Temples at ______and at ________ in Upper Egypt are only two of themany temples that Ramses II constructed to honorhis reign. These may have been built by ____________labor. Ramses’s temples all feature colossal statues of himself, giant ______________ and ______________carvings that honored events in his reign. DuringRamses II’s reign, Egypt was more than a country, it wasan _____________. Egypt’s empire included ________in the south and ________________ and Syria in thenorth.

Rameses II

Exodustemples Karnak

Luxor

Hebrew slave

columns hieroglyphic

empire NubiaPalestine

Temple at Karnak

Temple at Luxor

From 950-730 B.C. a group of invaders from thedeserts northwest of Egypt invaded and establishedan era of ______________. By 751 B.C. the princesof ________ were tired of Libyan rule. They believedthat the____________________________________. The Nubian prince________ wanted to ________________________ and he drove theLibyans out of Egypt. From 751-671 B.C. , the______________________ both Nubia and ________However, by 671 B.C. the war-like ______________who had already conquered Palestine swept down intoEgypt, and Egypt became part of its vast empire.

Libyan ruleNubia

Libyans had destroyed Egyptian culturePiankhi

restore Egyptian culture

Nubians ruled EgyptAssyrians

Libyans

Nubia

Kingdom at MeroëThe _____________ moved their kingdom south to thecity of ____________ which is located near to where the_______________ into the Blue and White. At _________the Kushites built a _______________ kingdom basedon the manufacture and trade of ________. The tinyKushite kingdom of ____________ became as__________As New Kingdom Egypt from its ________ trade.

NubiansMeroë

Nile divides Meroëvery wealthy

ironMeroë wealthy

iron

Persians

_______________ the Great was the Persian ruler who beganthe expansion of the Persian empire beginning around 550 B.C. After his death, his son conquered ____________ in the 530s. The Persian empire stretched from ______________ in thesouthwest to ______________ in the northwest near the BlackSea east to _____________ between the Tigrisand Euphrates and even further to the east as far as the_____________ under the rule of Darius.

Cyrus

EgyptEgypt

AnatoliaMesopotamia

Indus River

They controlled this vast empire through _____________rule. Each province could practice its ______________,speak its ____________________, and maintainits ______________________.Persians also remained in control by creatinga ________________________ of satraps and other paidemployees who were loyal to the emperor. Persianbureaucrats were spies, _________________ leaders and___________ collectors. Darius built the ______________to connect his vast empire and to facilitate __________.

tolerantown religion

own languageown culture

bureaucracy

militarytax Royal Road

trade

Persians

ZorastrianismThe Persians did have their own unique religion: ________________________ The founder, Zoroaster,taught that there was a god of ________ and a god of___________. After death, people were_______________and then sent to either ________________ or a__________________. The _____________ is the______________ . Concepts of judgment day, heaven andhell are also present in the modern religions practicedaround the world today.

Zoroastrianismlight

dark judgedparadise

fiery pit Avestaholy text

Zoroastrianism

Persian Royal Road