Contribution of Ethiopia-Nubia and Egypt

Flashcards on the vocabulary, key historical figures, and analytical concepts regarding Egyptian and Nubian contributions to civilization and Greek culture.

Valhalla

The Germanic paradise where, according to the nomadic traditions of the Eurasian plains, entry was granted only to a warrior killed on the battlefield.

Tribunal of Osiris

The Egyptian judgment setting where a deceased individual had to prove they had been charitable to the poor and had never sinned to achieve post-mortem felicity.

Greek Anthropomorphism

An acute form of materialism in which the Greeks reduced full Egyptian deities down to human-level beings distinguished primarily by physical strength and earthly weaknesses.

Amon

An Egyptian deity whose name carries the esoteric meaning of "that which is hidden, invisible," as reported by Plutarch in "Isis and Osiris."

Amélineau

The scholar who observed that the most famous Greek philosophical systems, notably those of Plato and Aristotle, originated in Egyptian thought.

Demiurge

A concept central to Plato's philosophy on the creation of the world that stems directly from Egyptian sources.

Beni Hasan

The site of Egyptian cliff tombs dating to the Twelfth Dynasty where proto-Doric columns are found.

Hypostyle Hall of Karnak

A vast hall in the temple of Karnak that is large enough to contain Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris along with its towers.

Aesop

An Egyptian Negro who introduced the style of fable with animal characters into Greece, later inspiring La Fontaine.

Great Pyramid of Cheops

An ancient monumental structure containing basic mathematical and astronomical data, including precessions of the equinoxes for 6,000 years and the exact value of $\pi$.

Marcel Griaule

The scholar who detected surviving traces of ancient Egyptian mathematical and astronomical knowledge among the Dogon.

Dogon

A Black African population among whom Marcel Griaule discovered lingering traces of ancient Egyptian astronomical and mathematical science.