Intro to Egyptology

Chapter 9

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CHAPTER 9
The Eighteenth Dynasty Before the Amarna Period (c.1550-1352 BC)

1) The reunification of Egypt (to begin the 18th Dynasty and the "New Kingdom") took place only in the last decade of the twenty-five-year reign of _______________.

2) The (mummified) body of Ahmose was found in the royal mummy cache of Deir el-Bahri. Where was his tomb located?

3) Priests of the late New Kingdom and early Third Intermediate Period reburied some royal mummies in a tomb near __________________.

4) Amenhotep may not yet have been an _________ at his accession.

5) In a general way, Amenhotep I's reign was a ______________ of his father's.

6) Soon after Amenhotep I's death, both he and his mother were deified and worshipped at Thebes, especially at Deir el-Medina, the __________ __-________ village.

7) __________ __-__________ was built early in the 18th Dynasty to house the craftsmen who would build and decorate the royal tombs (in the Valley of the Kings, and Valley of the Queens).

8) Amenhotep's military successes and consequent financial gains from Nubia began to improve the overall ___________ of Egypt.

9) By the end of Amenhotep I's reign, what four main characteristics of the 18th Dynasty had been established?

10) Amenhotep I enjoyed at least ____________ years of peaceful rule during which he was able to revive traditional activities such as monument building.

11) The titles held by (Egyptian princesses) and absence of husbands other than kings, show the limitations that were place on females born of the kings in order to limit access to the ____________ family.

12) The family of Seqenenra and Ahhotep was the first to established the prohibition that royal daughters were to marry no one other than _____ _________.

13) Prohibitions against princesses marrying outside the royal family did not mean that ___________ themselves were only able to marry princesses, however.

14) Throughout the 18th Dynasty, kings were most commonly born to their fathers by ______ - ________ secondary queens.

15) No offspring of Amenhotep I have been identified and the succession passed to Thutmose I, who was not a member of the ___________ family.

16) Thutmose I fathered the future Queen ___________ by his wife Ahmose.

17) Thutmose I fathered the future King ______________ by a non-royal wife, Mutnefret.

18) During the New Kingdom ______ became a major pilgrimage site because of the tombs of Khufu and Khafra and the Great Sphinx.

19) At (the temple of) ___________, Thutmose I left an indelible mark by extending the walls of the Middle Kingdom court to join tow new pylon gates and he completed the decoration of Amenhotep I's alabaster chapel.

20) Thutmose I's campaign to ___________ was very likely the true death knell to Kush and its capital Kerma.

21) There is no known funerary temple for Thutmose I but a chapel honoring him was included by _______________ in her temple.

22) Thutmose II succeeded his father Thutmose I but his reign lasted no more than _______ years.

23) ___________, the half-sister of Thutmose II served as his 'great wife.

' 24) Thutmose II's only major monuments are from ___________.

25) The fifty-four-year reign of Thutmose III began in his early childhood with ______________, his aunt and stepmother, acting as regent.

26) When Hatshepsut began to transform herself publicly (from regent) into a king, she had only one earlier mode to follow: Sobekkara Sobekneferu, the woman who ruled at the end of the _____ Dynasty.

27) Hatshepsut legitimized her reign by her blood line and had scenes and texts carved at her temple at Deir el_Bahri that claimed that (her father) Thutmose I had proclaimed her his _______ before his death.

28) When did Hatshepsut disappear from the historical record?

29) With the country evidently at peace during most of the twenty year of Hatshepsut's reign, she was able to exploit the _________ of Egypt's natural resources, as well as those of Nubia.

30) _____________ excavated a tomb (KV 20) in the Valley of the Kings for herself and her father, Thutmose I, but Thutmose III built tomb KV38 for himself and later moved Thutmose I to that tomb.

31) Hatshepsut modeled her temple at Deir el-Bahri after one by the 11th Dynasty king, ______________.

32) Hatshepsut's temple contains scenes and inscriptions that carefully characterize a number of aspects of _____________.

33) Hatshepsut's trade mission to _____ was promoted in Egypt as a major diplomatic coup.

34) After becoming sole king in the twentieth or twenty-first year of Hatshepsut's reign, Thutmose III launched seventeen years of military campaigns that established Egyptian dominance over ____________ and made strong inroads into Syria.

35) The spoils from the battle of __________ included 894 chariots, 200 suits of armor, over 2,000 horses, and 25,000 animals.

36) When Thutmose III conquered a city/country he sent the children of the rulers back to Egypt to be _____________.

37) In the fifty-first year of his reign, Thutmose III named his son, _____________ as co-regent and then shared the monarchy with him for a little more than two years.

38) The dishonoring of Hatshepsut that began around year 46 or 47 was probably in order to eliminate the claims of Hatashepust's family line to the throne rather than pure _____________.

39) Amenhotep II reigned for nearly ________ years with military success in the Levant, and peace and economic rewards to Egypt.

40) Royal nurses (male and female), together with tutors from the ranks of __________ __________, nurtured and educated royal children during the 18th Dynasty.

41) The story of Thutmose IV's elevation to the kingship related by the Giza Sphinx Stele inscription might suggest that he was ______ ____ ________ __________.

42) Egyptian rulers built numbers of ___________ in direct proportion to the amount of peace and affluence they enjoyed.

43) The thirty-eight-year reign of Amenhotep III was primarily a period of ________ ___ ___________.

44) The 'Colossi of Memnon' are the towering quartzite images of ___________ that protected the king's first pylon at his funerary temple (the single largest royal temple known from ancient Egypt (on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes.)

45) Queen ______ was the most influential woman in the reign of Amenhotep III and she survived her husband by a few years.

46) Queen _____ was so important to Amenhotep III that she not only appears with him on temple walls but she was deified in her own temple.

47) One reason the king might have married his own daughters was _____________.

48) During the reign of Amenhotep III, names of Aegean cities appear for the first time in hieroglyphic writing on statue bases from the king's funerary temple.


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