The document summarizes key aspects of the New Kingdom period in ancient Egypt. It describes how Queen Hatshepsut ruled as pharaoh and encouraged trade. It then discusses how later pharaohs like Thutmose III expanded Egypt's empire through conquest. Famous pharaohs who ruled during this period and left architectural legacies included Hatshepsut, Tutankhamen, and Ramesses II. The New Kingdom ended when foreign groups like the Libyans and Nubians took control of Egypt at different points.

1. New Kingdom
The temple and empire builders

2. New Kingdom Egypt
The invading ________ ruled until 1570 B.C. Around 1600
B.C. Egyptians drove the Hyksos out and established the
____________ which lasted from 1570-1075 B.C. Around
1570 B.C., the world’s first _________ ruler came to power.
_____________ spent her reign expelling the Hyksos from
Egypt. Around 1472 B.C. another ________ ruler came to
power –_________________. Queen Hatshepsut actually
took the title of __________. She commissioned sculptures
that portrayed her with a masculine figure as she attempted
to consolidate power. She spent her reign encouraging
_______ instead of fighting.
Hyksos
New Kingdom
female
Queen Ahotep
female
Queen Hatshepsut
pharaoh
trade

3. Around 1425 B.C. the pharaohs began to focus on
_______________. The Pharaoh Thutmose III went
____________________________ into ________ and
conquered it. Kush, also called _________, was an
independent kingdom ________ of Egypt. It became
part of ________________ Egypt with the conquests of
Thutmose III. The people of _____ began to
__________________________which means that they
worshipped Egyptian gods and learned to write in
_________________. Kushite princes even began to
think of themselves as ______________ princes.
empire building
beyond the First Cataract Nubia
Nubia
south
New Kingdom
Nubia
adopt Egyptian culture
hieroglyphics
Egyptian

4. Meroë
Kush

5. New Kingdom pharaohs did not build large
pyramids. Instead, they _______________ in
_____ walls and______________. Most New
Kingdom pharaohs lie entombed in the
_______________________ near Thebes in
__________________ The most famous of
these pharaohs is King _________________
whose tomb was found unplundered. The gold
and bejeweled _____________ found in King
Tut’s tomb speak to the great ____________ of
New Kingdom pharaohs.
built small tombs
cave underground
Valley of the Kings
Upper Egypt
Tutankhamen
artifacts
wealth

6. Valley of the Kings

19. Another famous pharaoh, __________________, may
have 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 the
many temples that Ramses II constructed to honor
his 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. During
Ramses II’s reign, Egypt was more than a country, it was
an _____________. Egypt’s empire included ________
in the south and ________________ and Syria in the
north.
Rameses II
Exodus
temples Karnak
Luxor
Hebrew slave
columns hieroglyphic
empire Nubia
Palestine

20. Temple at Karnak

23. Temple at Luxor

31. From 950-730 B.C. a group of invaders from the
deserts northwest of Egypt invaded and established
an era of ______________. By 751 B.C. the princes
of ________ were tired of Libyan rule. They believed
that the____________________________________.
The Nubian prince________ wanted to
________________________ and he drove the
Libyans 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 into
Egypt, and Egypt became part of its vast empire.
Libyan rule
Nubia
Libyans had destroyed Egyptian culture
Piankhi
restore Egyptian culture
Nubians ruled Egypt
Assyrians

32. Libyans

33. Nubia

38. Kingdom at Meroë
The _____________ moved their kingdom south to the
city of ____________ which is located near to where the
_______________ into the Blue and White. At _________
the Kushites built a _______________ kingdom based
on the manufacture and trade of ________. The tiny
Kushite kingdom of ____________ became as__________
As New Kingdom Egypt from its ________ trade.
Nubians
Meroë
Nile divides Meroë
very wealthy
iron
Meroë wealthy
iron

39. Persians
_______________ the Great was the Persian ruler who began
the 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 the
southwest to ______________ in the northwest near the Black
Sea east to _____________ between the Tigris
and Euphrates and even further to the east as far as the
_____________ under the rule of Darius.
Cyrus
Egypt
Egypt
Anatolia
Mesopotamia
Indus River

40. They controlled this vast empire through _____________
rule. Each province could practice its ______________,
speak its ____________________, and maintain
its ______________________.
Persians also remained in control by creating
a ________________________ of satraps and other paid
employees who were loyal to the emperor. Persian
bureaucrats were spies, _________________ leaders and
___________ collectors. Darius built the ______________
to connect his vast empire and to facilitate __________.
tolerant
own religion
own language
own culture
bureaucracy
military
tax Royal Road
trade

41. Persians

42. Zorastrianism
The 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 and
hell are also present in the modern religions practiced
around the world today.
Zoroastrianism
light
dark judged
paradise
fiery pit Avesta
holy text

43. Zoroastrianism

45. Persian Royal Road