SECTION 8.

• What ages do the monuments up the Nile reveal to us? 
• Describe the rule of a Feudal Age baron. 
• Describe his library. 
• What kind of progress had been made since the Pyramid Age? 
• Describe the science of the time. 
• What great commercial link between two seas was created?

• Write a description of what you see from an aëroplane over the east end of the Temple of Karnak. 
• How did the Pharaohs who built Karnak differ from those who built the pyramids?
• Who was the first great woman in history? Tell something of her reign. 
• Tell about the reign of the greatest Egyptian general. 
• What is an empire? What was the extent of the Egyptian Empire?

• What did the Egyptian emperors do with the wealth gained from subject peoples? 
• Describe an empire temple and its surroundings. Describe the great Karnak hall, and tell how the cleree-story was improved. 
• Give an account of the Theban cemetery and what it contains. 
• Who tried to introduce the earliest belief in one god? Describe the attempt.

• What were the consequences of Ikhnaton’s movement? 
• Tell about the Amarna letters. 
• What Northerners held Syria, and what new weapons did they have? 
• What do the war pictures at Thebes show us about the Egyptian army? 
• What foreigners invaded Egypt and aided in destroying the Empire? 
• What happened to the bodies of the emperors? 
• Summarize the ages we have learned along the Nile from the pyramids to Thebes.

• Why were our great-grandfathers unable to read hieroglyphic? 
• Who deciphered it, and when? 
• What Egyptian sign represents the first letter in Ptolemy’s name? 
• What Egyptian sign represents the fifth sign in Cleopatra’s name? 
• Compare the fourth Egyptian sign in Ptolemy’s name with the second sign in Cleopatra’s name. 
• Would you call this an accident or proof that the lion equals L?
• What monument did Champollion next use? Describe it (Fig. 207).