1) What was the name of the Egyptian priest who, in the third century BC, wrote the first Western-style history of Egypt?

2) Manetho divided the "pharaonic period" from circa 3100 to 332 BC into a number of periods known as ____________, each consisting of a sequence of rulers, usually united by such factors as kinship or the location of their principal royal residence.

3) It is becoming (more/less) difficult to reconcile Manetho's politically based chronology (dynasties) with the social and cultural changes revealed by excavations since the 1960's.

4) Some of the new work shows that at many points in time Egypt was far (more/less) culturally unified and centralized than was previously assumed.

5) Modern Egyptologists' chronologies of ancient Egypt combine what three basic approaches?

6) The advent of _________ calibration curves - allowing the spans of radiocarbon years to be converted into actual calendar years - represents a significant improvement in terms of (dating) accuracy.

7) One of the most important historical sources for the early dynastic period (3000-2686 BC) and the Old Kingdom (2686-2160 B.C.is a 5th dynasty basalt stele (circa 2400 BC) inscribed on both sides with royal annals stretching back to the mystical prehistoric rulers. It is known as the _________ stone.

8) What five types of events are recorded on the Palermo Stone?

9) Apart from the Palermo Stone the basic sources for traditional chronologies in Egypt are _________ history and the so-called ________-________ along with other dated records such as astronomical observations, textual and artistic documents, genealogical information, and synchronisms with non-Egyptian sources.

10) King-lists such as the one in the temple of Seti I at Abydos list the names of kings written out in a continuous sequence from the first to the 19th dynasty. Why were certain king's names (and sometimes whole dynasties) omitted from the list by the priests compiling these lists?

11) The ancient Egyptians dated important political and religious events not according to the number of years that had elapsed since a single fixed point in history (such as the birth of Christ), but in terms of __________.

12) By the Middle Kingdom, each king held how many names (titles)?

13) What particular aspects of the kinship were encapsulated in the fivefold titulary?

14) The __________ name (or nomen), introduced by the title " son of Ra " was the only one to be given to the Pharaoh as soon as he was born.

15) The other four names - Horus, nebty ('he of the two ladies'), Horus of gold, and nesu-bit ('he of the sedge and bee') - were given to him at what point?

16) It was not until the reign of Sneferu, 2613-2589 BC, in the 4th dynasty, that the nesu-bit name ('he of the sedge and bee') was first framed by the ____________ shape (an encircling loop that perhaps signified the infinite extent of the royal domain).

17) The king-lists were not concerned so much with history as with __________ worship.

18) The text and artifacts that formed the basis of Egyptian history usually convey information that is either __________ (mythological or ritualistic) or ___________ (historical), and the trick in constructing a historical narrative is to distinguish as clearly as possible between these types of information.

19) The task of the modern historian of ancient Egypt is usually to attempt to _______ _______ all the strands of evidence in the form of individuals' biographies on the walls of tombs, list of kings on temple walls, stratigraphic evidence of archaeological excavations, and a whole range of other pieces of information.

20) Constructing reliable chronologies for the so-called ___________ _____________ has proven to be particularly awkward because there was often more than one ruler or dynasty reigning simultaneously in different parts of the country.

21) Two ancient Egyptian textual records (a 12th Dynasty letter and an 18th Dynasty medical papyrus) that contain dates relating to the rising of a particular star form the basis of the conventional chronology of ancient Egypt and by assigning absolute dates to each of these documents Egyptologists have been able to extrapolate a set of absolute dates for the whole of the _____________ period.

22) ___________-____________, is a modern term applied to the periods during which two kings were simultaneously ruling, usually consisting of an overlap of several years between the end of one sole reign and the beginning of the next .

23) The system of co-regency may have been used, from at least as early as the Middle Kingdom, in order to ensure that the _______ __ __________ took place with the minimum of disruption and instability.

24) Even when an Egyptian monument appears to be simply commemorating a specific event in history it is often _____________ that event as an act that is simultaneously mythological, ritualistic, and economic.