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Middle Kingdom

Middle Kingdom. By: Madison Halcovage Laicie Ray. Vocabulary Words. Mentuhotep – the ruler of the city of Tebes in the Upper Egypt Senwosnet – the greatest pharaoh of the 12 th Dynasty Crenellated – to furnish crenels or battlements

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Middle Kingdom

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  1. Middle Kingdom By: Madison Halcovage Laicie Ray

  2. Vocabulary Words • Mentuhotep– the ruler of the city of Tebes in the Upper Egypt • Senwosnet – the greatest pharaoh of the 12th Dynasty • Crenellated – to furnish crenels or battlements • Prosperity – a successful flourishing ,or thriving condition especially in financial respects, good fortune • Calamities – a great misfortune or disaster • Hyksos – what Egyptians had called the nomads from Palestine.

  3. Facts About The Middle Kingdom • Mentuhotepwas the ruler of the city of Thebes in the Upper Egypt who had successfully leaded his army up and down the Nile against the nomarchs and won control of the entire nation. • Thebes replaced Memphis as the capital city. • The return of prosperity Egypt’s middle class of traders, scribes and craftsmen had rapidly expanded. • The middle class of this period developed a taste for luxury items that were formerly available to just the pharaohs and the nobility.

  4. More Facts • The pyramids of the Middle Kingdom were built of mud bricks. They are not made of stone. They were shoddy and vastly inferior to the majestic monuments of the Old Kingdom. • The greatest pharaoh of the 12th Dynasty was Senwosnet. • All the gold in the Nubian mines became a part of Egypt’s national wealth.

  5. Pictures of Egypt

  6. Pyramids of Giza

  7. Senwosnet

  8. Get away I would like to live please

  9. Hieroglyphs

  10. Egypt Shorthand

  11. Questions • What are Hyksos? • What Egyptians called the nomads from Palestine. • What did the anarchy of the Dark Ages make clear to the rulers of the Middle Kingdom? • They made it clear that Egypt needed a very strong central government. • Why did Egypt conquer Nubia? • Egypt conquered Nubia because during Senwosnet’s reign he had ordered a channel that was 250 feet long and 34 feet wide cut through the granite rocks beside the rapids of the First Cataract. This bypass allowed his war galleys to sail directly in to Nubia which was conquered and was made part of Egypt’s territory.

  12. Any Questions

  13. Thank you for watching By: Madison Halcovage Laicie Ray

  14. Good Bye

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