Africa Flashcards
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
Ancient Egyptian Doctors
- Priests first to practice medicine.
- The first known physician in Egypt
-high priest and Vizier, – Imhotep (TRUE FR. OF MEDICINE)
MATHEMATICS
- Lebombo bone
- Ishango bone
- Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
- Moscow Mathematical Papyrus
ASTRONOMY
Calendar
* The ancient Egyptians used a lunar calendar for their religious
festivals and ritual.
- and solar calendar for every day life (365 days)
- Akhet : The time of the floods
- Peret: The time of growth
- Shemu: The time of harvest
OBELISKS
- symbol of the pharoah divinity and object of worship for God sun Ra
SUNDIALS
* Sundial, the earliest type of timekeeping device
PYRAMIDS
- Great Pyramid
- The Pyramid of Khafre
- The Pyramid of Menkaure
WRITING SYSTEM
Hieroglyphics
- Phonograms
- Ideograms
- Determinatives
MAKE UP
- Make-up originated with the ancient Egyptians, where men
and women alike are used to wear it.
- malachite- a copper ore, which provided the green eye make
up color - Kohl- used to draw thick, distinctive black lines giving an
almond shape to the eyes - Red ochre- which was used as rouge or lip color
- Henna- which was widely used to stain the fingertips and toes
It is a medical text on surgical trauma.
Edwin Smith Papyrus
- 700 magical spells and remedies.
- manual for military surgery
- only scientific papyrus that time
- contain incantations for demons
Ebers Papyrus
- 34 sections of specific gynecological problems, diagnosis, and treatment.
- they believed that conditions are linked to the womb
- treatments are non-surgical, ex. massage.
Kahun Gynecological Papyrus
- The oldest mathematical
instrument. - A baboon fibula used as a measuring device
Lebombo Bone
- The_____ is not merely a measuring device but the bone’s inscriptions are clearly separated into clusters of markings that
represent various quantities.
Ishango Bone
- instructional material on how multiplications are carried.
- named Alexander Henry Rhind
- long table of fractional parts to help with division, followed by the solutions of 84 specific problems in arithmetic and geometry.
Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
- named Golenishchev
Mathematical Papyrus, after Vladimir Golenishchev. - known for its
geometry problems.
Moscow Mathematical Papyrus
Calendar
- The ancient Egyptians used a lunar calendar for their religious
festivals and ritual. - They also used a solar calendar for their daily lives which contained 365 days per year.
- Akhet : The time of the floods
- Peret: The time of growth
- Shemu: The time of harvest
symbol of pharaohs’ divinity and objects of worship of the Egyptian Sun god Ra
Obelisk
- The earliest type of timekeeping device,
- indicates the time of day by the position of the shadow of some object exposed to the sun’s rays.
Sundials
the oldest and largest of the three
- Pharaoh Khufu
The Great Pyramid
- the second tallest
- Pharaoh Khafre’s tomb.
The Pyramid of Khafre
the southernmost pyramid at Giza.
The Pyramid of Menkaure
- The earliest form of writing
These were drawings that portrayed a story.
Hieroglyphics
are signs that
represent a specific sound
Phonograms
represent ideas instead of sounds.
Ideograms
- hieroglyphs
that were not spoken or translated. - use to make the meaning of the words clearer.
Determinatives
