More Egypt Unit. People + Hyksos invasion

1. Ancient Egypt Unit
Moving on to people...

2. King Tut
Tomb discovered by Howard Carter in 1922
Became King at age 8 in about 1347 B.C.
Died at 17 yrs in 1339 B.C.
“Egypt had already been a united kingdom
for 1,700 yrs when Tutankhamon came to the
throne” (p. 48 in our main textbook).

3. Timeline / Temporal
Mapping
if Tut became king in 1347 and Egypt had
already been united as an empire for 1,700
years when that happened, when would you
date Egypt’s unification?
When does your textbook tell you the two
kingdoms were united?

4. Timeline / Temporal
Mapping
In our textbook, it says: “Carter later wrote
[of the flowers placed in Tut’s grave] there
was nothing so beautiful as those few
withered flowers...They told us what a short
period 3,300 years really was” (p. 48).
How do you get this timeframe of Tut’s
funeral being 3,300 years ago?

5. Timeline / Temporal
Mapping
If Tutankhamon became king in 1347 and
Egypt had already been an empire for 1700
yrs at that time and Carter discovered the
tomb in 1922...
How temporally distant is Menes’s unification
of Egypt from today?

10. King Tut Mysteries Solved: Was Disabled,
Malarial, and Inbred
"Frail boy" needed cane, says study, which also
found oldest genetic proof of malaria.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100216-king-tut-malaria-bones-inbred-tutankhamun/

11. Hatshepsut
“Among the rulers of the New
Kingdom, perhaps the most surprising
was Hatshepsut. This remarkable
woman was one of Tutankhamon’s
ancestors. Although Egypt had several
strong queens who wielded power
through their fathers, sons, or
husbands, custom decreed that the
pharaoh be male” (p. 55).

12. Donʼt let the different spellings of these ancient rulersʼs names bother you.

13. Hatshepsut
“Nonetheless, Hatshepsut declared herself pharaoh
around 1478 B.C., While her stepson, Thutmose was
a mere child. On special occasions, she donned a
man’s kilt and attached the pharaoh's, long braided
ceremonial beard to her chin. Hatshepsut ruled
boldly for 22 years. Unlike most New Kingdom
rulers, she was better known for encouraging trade
than for waging war” (p.55).

15. Hatshepsut
“Hatsheput’s death is still a mystery to
historians. No one knows whether she
died naturally or was murdered by her
stepson, the impatient-to-rule Thutmose
III” .
(p. 55)

16. Thutmose III
“Egypt was now a mighty empire. It controlled
regions far beyond the Nile River valley and
drew boundless wealth from them. Egypt had
never before --nor has it since--commanded
such power and wealth as during the reign of
the pharaoh Thutmose III” (p. 56).

17. Akhenaten
also known Amenhotep IV at the start of his reign

18. Akhenaten
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/into-the-unknown-
tuts-dad.html

19. Akhenaten
Most important thing to know: He tried to
change Egyptian religion.
It didn’t work.
I want you students to develop a page or a
slide about this ruler. (Spring 2010 semester
can ignore this assignment after 3/17.)

20. Akhenaten
Why was he hated?
What religious changes did he try to
implement?
Why did these fail?
I am here to help you with sources and
research methods. Like “command F”
Seriously, let me help w. research.

21. Egypt and the Pyramids
Rick Steves’s short 3 minute film in my iTunes

22. Hyksos
*Stop powerpoint
*Get out Google Earth or get out a map.
*Get out something to take notes on. (You
should have note-taking stuff out right now
anyway.)
*Let’s clarify what “intermediate period” means
*Let’s listen to Prof Matt Dillon’s iTunes
Lecture #12091 from 3:08 to 7:04 or 9:29
*I’m going to model taking notes. We’ll do this
for just a short time today, it’s something we’ll
try again some other time more in-depth.