last update: 10/3/13
History 270
Names, Places
and Terms to Remember
This page contains series of listings of names, places, and terms that
were mentioned in class as part of discussions or lectures, and which
are deemed important enough for students to remember and to consider as
they review for exams and quizzes. These terms are listed here
chronologically according to the date in which they occurred in class
or were written on the class blackboard.
N.B.: If you find any terms that do not appear in your notes on the specific date mentioned,
then check your notes for one class-date earlier or later.
First day of class (8/20)
- archaeology
- cline
- Egyptology (interdisciplinary)
- environmental archaeology
- geoarchaeology
- geomorphology
- Near East vs. Middle East
- palaeoclimatology
- palaeoecology
- philology
- demotic
- Horappollo
- law of superposition
- stratification
- stratigraphy
- `Amr ibn el-`As
- agricultural revolution
- Akkadians
- Amorites
- Arab migrations
- Arabs
- Aramaeans
- Byzantine Empire
- Elloh/Ellohim/Allah
- Nabataeans
- Sahara Desert (evolution)
- semite
- semitic languages
- Sumerians
- Abydos
- Aegyptiaca
- Amratian (period) = Nagada I
- Archaic Period
- Badarian (period)
- Bronze Age
- Buto
- C-14 dating
- Copper Age
- Dynasty 0
- Dynasty 1
- Dynasty 2
- dynasties (Egyptian)
- Early Gerzean (period) = Nagada II
- Hetep-sekhemwy-imef ("The 2 Powerful Ones are at Peace in Him"= Khasekhemwy)
- Hierakonpolis
- Horus Aha (= Menes)
- Horus Khasekhem ("The Powerful One has Appeared")
- Horus-king vs. Seth-king
- Horus-Seth Khasekhemwy ("The 2 Powerful Ones Have Appeared")
- invention of agriculture
- Iron Age
- Late Gerzean (period) = Nagada III
- Manetho
- Memphis
- Menes (Meni) = Aha
- Naqada III (= Dynasty 0)
- Narmer
- Narmer Palette
- Palermo Stone
- Predynastic Period
- Ptolemy II
- Robert Braidwood
- Saqqara
- Scorpion
- Scorpion Macehead
- sequence dating (Petrie)
- seriation
- Seth Peribsen (king)
- Seth Rebellion
- settlement archaeology
- Terminal Naqada (=Naqada III)
- thermoluminescence
- William Flinders Petrie
- Werner Kaiser
- agricultural revolution
- akhet, "inundation"
- civil year (civil calendar)
- Code of Ur-Nammu
- customary law vs. codified law
- Egyptian creation story
- Egyptian optimism vs. Mesopotamian pessimism
- geographical determinism
- law of non-contradiction
- Marduk
- Mesopotamian creation story
- order vs. chaos
- peret, "seed" or "coming forth", winter
- Ra
- regnal year
- shemu, "low water", summer
- "great year" (13-month lunar year)
- archaeoastronomy
- calendar circle
- Canis Majoris, "great dog" (constellation)
- circumpolar stars ("Imperishable Ones")
- civil calendar (360+5 days)
- decans
- epagomenal days
- heliacal rising
- intercalary month
- Islamic calendar (lunar calendar)
- Jewish calendar (lunar-stellar)
- lunar calendar (354/384 days)
- lunar day
- lunar month
- lunar year (354 days)
- lunar-stellar calendar
- Nabta Playa
- Neolithic Period
- Orion
- regnal dating, Middle Kingdom
- regnal dating, New Kingdom and later
- regnal year
- Sahara Desert (savannah)
- sidereal year (365.25 days)
- Sirius/Sothis (dog star)
- solar calendar
- solar year (365 days) sothic cycle (1,460 years)
- Scorpion Macehead
- tepy renpet ("first of the year," New Year's day)
- Thoth (month)
- wehem mesut ("Repeating of Births")
- wep renpet ("opening of the year," heilacal rising of Sirius)
- akhet, "inundation"
- Alnilam
- Alnitak
- Bellatrix
- Betelgeuse
- lunar New Year's day
- Mintaka
- Orion (= Osiris)
- peret, "seed" or "coming forth", winter
- Rigel
- Sah ("Backward Looker")
- Saiph
- shemu, "low water", summer
- Sirius (Isis)
- solar New Year's day
- sothic cycle
- Sothis/Sopdet, "the Sharp One"
- Aigyptos/Aegyptus, Egypt
- Deshret, (Egy.), "Red Land", desert
- Kemet (Egy.), "Black Land", Egypt
- Misr, Masr (Arab.), Egypt
- Mizraim (Hebr.), Egypt
- Musru (Akkad.), the "Far Land", Egypt
- Neb-Tawy, "Lord of the 2 Lands" (king)
- romenkayma (Egy.), "man of Egypt," Egyptian
- Ta-mery (Egy.), "Land of the 2 Riverbanks", Egypt
- alignment of pyramids
- King Djet
- mastaba (Arab.), "bench"
- mound of creation
- obelisk
- oboliskos (Gr.), skewer
- Orion's Belt
- circumpolar stars ("Imperishable Ones")
- pyramid
- pyramid as ladder to heaven
- pyramid as sunbeams in stone
- pyramid of light
- pyramidion
- pyramidos (Gr.), bread cakes
- Saqqara
- soul shafts
- step pyramid
Fall Break: No Class (10/15)
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