Ancient Egypt

Question 1

what was Egypt called-

Answer 1

was called the gift of the nile

Question 2

The Nile River-

Answer 2

• the Nile is extremely navigable
• the Nile flows north and the winds blow south making for easy travel in both directions
• the Nile flows straight through Egypt and provides vegetation, though it has unpredictable floods.

Question 3

Hymn to the Nile-

Answer 3

a tune that was created and sung by the ancient Egyptian peoples about the flooding of the Nile and all of the miracles it brought to ancient Egyptian civilization.

Question 4

Upper and Lower Egypt-

Answer 4

• upper Egypt is in the south,
• lower Egypt is in the north,
• the pharaoh lived in lower egypt called Ta-Mehu (“Land of the North”)
• upper egypt was Ta-Shemau (“Land of Reeds” or “Sedgeland”).
• bulbed White Crown of Upper (southern) Egypt,
• level Red Crown of Lower (northern) Egypt

Question 5

King Narmer-

Answer 5

• Egyptian pharaoh
• unified of Egypt and founded of the First Dynasty
• successor to king Ka.

Question 6

Narmer Palette-

Answer 6

• an important artifact to the egyptians Great Hierakonpolis Palette or the Palette of Narmer
• On one side, the king is depicted with the bulbed White Crown of Upper(hedjet) (southern) Egypt, and the other side depicts the king wearing the level Red Crown of Lower(Deshret) (northern) Egypt.

Question 7

Djoser’s Step Pyramid-

Answer 7

• in the Saqqara necropolis
• 6-tier, 4-sided structure
• earliest colossal stone building in Egypt.

Question 8

Pyramids of Giza-

Answer 8

• royal tombs built for three different pharaohs
• Khufu(second king of the 4th dynasty), (Cheops)-it is the largest of the three pyramids at Giza
• Khafre(the fourth of the eight kings of the 4th dynasty)
• Menkaure(the fifth king of the 4th dynasty).

Question 9

Hieroglyphics-

Answer 9

• formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt.
• Hieroglyphs combined logographic, syllabic, and alphabetic elements,
• has 1,000 distinct characters.
• Cursive hieroglyphs were used for religious literature on papyrus and wood.

Question 10

Rosetta Stone-

Answer 10

• on it is Demotic, hieroglyphic and Greek.
• made of granodiorite stele
• built during the Ptolemaic dynasty on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes.
• helped scholars crack the code of hieroglyphics

Question 11

Egyptian burial rites-

Answer 11

• ancient Egyptians had an elaborate set of funerary practices that they believed were necessary to ensure their immortality after death.
• mummifying the body
• casting magic spells
• burials with specific grave goods thought to be needed in the afterlife.

Question 12

Book of the Dead-

Answer 12

• written on papyrus
• ancient Egyptian collection of mortuary texts made up of spells or magic formulas,
• placed in tombs and believed to protect and aid the deceased in the hereafter

Question 13

Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt-

Answer 13

Upper Egypt came north and invaded Lower Egypt, unifying the two kingdoms under a single ruler(king Narmer) who took the title of pharaoh and wore a double crown.