Egyptians Vocabulary
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waterfall, rough rapids that impeded on passage of boats | ||
triangular area of marshland formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers, located in lower Egypt & sustained life there | ||
ruling family that passes the right to rule from one member to another | ||
title of the rulers of ancient Egypt | ||
system of government that includes different job functions and levels of authority | ||
chief minister who supervised the business of government in ancient Egypt | ||
Egypt's first female ruler that exercised all the rights of a pharaoh | ||
stepson of Hatshepsut that took over as pharaoh once he reached adulthood. a great military general who stretched Egypt's borders to their greatest extent ever | ||
ruler of the New Kingdom for 66 years, and during that time he pushed Egyptian control northward again as far as Syria. boasted numerous conquests on temples and monuments | ||
a ruler who has complete authority over the government and lives of the people; NOT A DICTATOR | ||
a tall pointed stone pillar made as a monument to a great ruler | ||
a society in which movement from one class to another is POSSIBLE | ||
a type of society in which movement from class to class is difficult | ||
a sense of equality | ||
preservation of dead bodies by embalming them and wrapping them in cloth | ||
spirit that lives in the body and continues to live even though the body has died | ||
Egypt was considered the ____, because it was completely reliant on the river | ||
The desert protected Egypt from __. | ||
grown by the fertile soil of the Nile. fibers used for clothing | ||
stretched from the Nile's 1st cataract to within 100 miles of the Mediterranean Sea | ||
covered the delta region where the Nile empties into the Mediterranean | ||
number of distinct Egyptian regions | ||
pharaoh who united Upper & Lower Egypt. He founded the first capital and was King of Upper Egypt | ||
----bc when Upper & Lower Egypt were united | ||
1st Egyptian capital, the site near where the Nile empties into its delta | ||
Menes and his successors used the Nile as a --- linking North and South | ||
The Nile River served as a --- ---that merchants could travel up and down exchanging goods. | ||
number of periods historians divide ancient Egypt into | ||
True or False? Although power passed from one dynasty to another, the land remained generally united. | ||
pharaohs had strongest power during which kingdom? | ||
True or False? Building a pyramid was a short process. | ||
True or False? The Middle Kingdom was a time of great prosperity. | ||
The bad times of the Middle Kingdom were blamed on --- | ||
what caused the periods to change between Kingdom and kingdom | ||
an agricultural district | ||
major god with the double crown, signifies 'all' and 'perfection' | ||
king of the earth, green, went to underworld, king of the underworld | ||
queen of Earth | ||
killed Osiris out of jealousy, and was the new king of earth until Horus killed him | ||
god of embalming and dead, head of a jackal | ||
hawk for a head, blue-scarf-thing, god of the sky, the EYE | ||
feather head, truth, justice, harmony | ||
sundisk over head, most important, god of sun | ||
Osiris & Isis's sun | ||
who wins the battle, Horus or Seth? | ||
the new ruler of Earth (after he loses an eye) | ||
very important 'explanation' book to Egyptians | ||
True or False? Cleanliness was key during the embalming process. | ||
salt used to dry out dead bodies | ||
which side was the incision made on that was used to take out internal organs | ||
--- used in the embalming process would be buried with the pharaoh | ||
the Egyptian middle class was --- | ||
peasants and slaves made up the --- class | ||
pharaohs and the royal family made up the --- class | ||
government officials (vizier, etc) and high priests made up the --- class | ||
in the New kingdom class became more (fluid, rigid) | ||
skilled craftsworkers that made jewelry, furniture,and fabrics for the palaces and tombs of pharaohs | ||
women had a --- status then elsewhere | ||
very important people that were record keepers and pharaoh's government official | ||
a system in which symbols of pictures called hieroglyphs representing objects, concepts or sounds | ||
the second kind of writing developed that was simpler | ||
the third kind of writing that was even simpler than the second | ||
used to make paper-like writing material, it was easier | ||
listed passages in hieroglyphics, demotic, and Greek, key in translation | ||
True or false? the Egyptians knew nothing about the sciences | ||
Was the Egyptian calendar the basis for our calendar? | ||
Physicians believed in ---. | ||
Physicians learned a lot about the body from ---. | ||
Did Egyptian physicians perform surgeries? | ||
developed to solve practical problems | ||
was used to survey lands about flooding, find pyramid size | ||
The Egyptians had great knowledge in --- through statues and paintings. | ||
Artists always presented gods and pharaohs as --- then they actually are. | ||
--- indicated the subject of a painting's importance | ||
eyes and shoulders in paintings | ||
faces and bodies in paintings | ||
Were subjects shown in loose, every-day poses? | ||
Did some human figures have animal qualities that represented certain special qualities? | ||
including hymns and prayers to gods, proverbs, and love poems | ||
a popular type of literature | ||
largest pyramid in the world | ||
looks a little like a ziggurat, but more like a pyramid. shows the transition between the two | ||
The Great Pyramids of Giza are one of a --- still remaining | ||
Khufu, Khafre, Menkaura | ||
the base of Khufu's pyramid forms a perfect --- | ||
ft high:KP | ||
ft base:KP | ||
mil blocks used:KP | ||
Khufu is visible from the --- | ||
Age of the Pyramids | ||
went from OK to MK | ||
the Middle Kingdom had the greatest sense of egalitarianism | ||
new capital city during the mk | ||
the Middle Kingdom also bough the expansion of -- and major public works | ||
the Middle Kingdom also was trying to --- another 'illness' | ||
who lived in the tomb? | ||
'divine salt' |