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Ancient Egyptian War, Politics and Gods
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on April 27, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
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the              Palette (31st century BC)
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one of the oldest and most important artifacts from Ancient           
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thought by some to depict the                        of Upper and Lower Egypt under the king Narmer, which is the founding of the unified Egyptian kingdom under one pharaoh
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a stone palette
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on the pallete, Narmer is wearing the crown of Upper Egypt about to hit a                  with a club
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demonstrates the power of the pharaoh based on force
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Narmer is larger than anyone else in the                   
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on the back side
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Narmer is wearing the crown of lower Egypt
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in a                     
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again, the pharaoh is larger than the other people in the depiction
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Statue of              II at Luxor
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a New Kingdom pharaoh
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whereas Narmer was an Old Kingdom               
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Ramses II (1279-1213 BCE)
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over a thousand years after Pharaoh Narmer
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led an enormous                  campaign
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many temples and statues of himself across Egypt
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half of the surviving temples in Egypt date from the time of Ramses
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apparently had many              of children
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a pharaoh was a kind of super-human, father-god figure
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statues are much larger than         -size
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represented in similar ways to Narmer
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wearing a            which symbolizes upper and lower Egypt joined
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has            which represents his status as pharaoh
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pharaohs are often represented still, often seated, which suggests repose and                       
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suggested that they don't need to move, that they are so powerful they can just sit
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led many                  campaigns
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south against the Nubians into modern-day Sudan
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north against Hittites into modern-day Syria
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we aren't sure how well he did in these               
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the representations of them are all apparently commissioned by Ramses or other Egyptians to suggest what a great leader he was
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clearly he did a good enough job to keep Egypt from being invaded by either the                or the Hittites
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it may be that he just fought them to a standstill and everyone went home
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a few cases where Pharaohs are represented differently
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Queen                      (1507–1458 BC)
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a member of the Egyptian royal family
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the daughter of Thutmose I
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the wife of his son                  II, so she married her brother
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mother of Tutmose III
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the way the family structure of the dynasty was set up was that it was based on                      within the family and incest
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the belief that the pharaoh's family was so sacred that members could only marry members of that family
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this makes good                  sense but very bad genetic sense
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resulted in many difficulties for the pharaohs over time
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Tutmose III became pharaoh at the age of one
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she was made the regent to rule over the               
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instead of simply be the queen mother who was in charge until her son grew up
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she actually took over as pharaoh
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this was something that was not usually done in Ancient Egypt by women in the            household
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some statues of her represent her as a women, but other shoe her as a pharaoh where she is represented as being male
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she was probably seen as taking on masculine identity
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she becomes symbolically the father of the country
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the Temple of Hatshepsut
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survives to this day
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one of the best surviving temples from that period
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clearly she wasn't any kind of             -class pharaoh of that period
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Bust of                   
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the wife of Pharaoh Nakanatan
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her bust was sculpted in          BCE
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one of the most stunning works of art from ancient Egypt
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Neues Museum in             
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the Egyptians want it back
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the Germans want to keep it
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painted on                   
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realistic and life-like
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details
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wrinkled on her eyelids and neck
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represented as a human            not a god
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wife of Akhenaten
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the most unique and distinctive pharaoh of all
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tried to completely                    Egyptian religion
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the only real god as the sun-god         
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made Aten into part of his name
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Egyptians followed this for a little while
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this fell apart pretty quickly after he died
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one of the first cases of anywhere in the world of monotheism
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most societies were polytheistic
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before the Jewish religion and certainly before Christianity or Islam
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had unorthodox religious beliefs but also allowed unorthodox styles of art
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Bust of Nefertiti
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much more realistic than other pharaonic art before and after Akhenaten
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art work: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and their                 
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an                  family
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a kind of an emotional, laid-back picture with a certain sentimentality about it
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much more informal representation in Egyptian history
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Tutankhamen
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Akhenaten's son
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Nefertiti was not his mother since Akhenaten had many           
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we don't know who Tutankhamen's              was
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but Tutankhamen's mother was one of Akhenaten's               
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came to throne of age 9
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lived to age 19
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death was probably caused by broken       
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probably also had               
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throughout his life also had trouble                because he had birth defects being from an incestuous union in a family that had been incestuous before that
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not known for anything he did as pharaoh
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is known because his tomb was the only one found in the              age without anything having been taken from it
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his tomb was opened in 1923 by Howard             
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they found all of the regalia, all of the tomb artifacts, and all of the gold and jewels and treasures
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this find is important because Tutankhamen didn't rule for very long

People:

######################### (1507-1458 BC)
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The fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt who ruled jointly with her son, Thutmose III, who had ascended to the throne as one-year-old child after the death of his father
  • instead of being satisfied as the queen mother who was in charge until her son grew up, Hatshepsut actually took over the office of pharaoh
  • while women had a relatively high status in ancient Egypt and enjoyed the legal right to own, inherit, or will property, a woman becoming pharaoh was rare
  • generally regarded by Egyptologists as one of the most successful pharaohs, reigning longer than any other woman of an indigenous Egyptian dynasty
  • she was successful in warfare early in her reign, but generally is considered to be a pharaoh who inaugurated a long peaceful era
  • reestablished the trade networks
  • one of the most prolific builders in ancient Egypt, commissioning hundreds of construction projects throughout both Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt, and of course her own temple, the Temple of Hatshepsut
  • "the first great woman in history of whom we are informed"

Ideas and Concepts:

The first historical document in the world via tonight's Western Civilization class:

"Dating from about the 31st century BC, the Narmer Palette contains some of the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions ever found. It is thought to depict the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the king Narmer, which was the founding of the unified Egyptian kingdom under one pharaoh. The Palette, which has survived five millennia in almost perfect condition, was discovered by British archeologists in 1897–1898. The Narmer Palette is part of the permanent collection of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

While most of the images on the palette most probably depict the military conquests of Narmer in his successful attempt to unify Egypt into one, in the center on the second side can be seen two men holding ropes tied to the outstretched, intertwining necks of two serpopards confronting each other. The serpopard is a mythological creature and a cross between a serpent and a leopard, or lion. The circle formed by their curving necks is the central part of the Palette, which is the area where the cosmetics would have been ground."
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