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Ancient Egypt Flashcards

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Vessels that store the viral organs after mummification

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Canonic jars

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Document that contains spells and charms to help secure passage into the afterlife

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Book of the dead

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How long did it take to mummify a corpse?

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70 days

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3
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Where were the Pharoah buried

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Valley of the kings

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First recorded examples of hieroglyphs date back to ____ years

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5000 years

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What discovery in 1799 finally enabled us or translate Egyptian hieroglyphs?

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The Rosetta Stone

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Who deciphered the translations on the Rosetta Stone?

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Jean Champollion

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What three languages were written on the Rosetta Stone?

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Greek, Egyptian, demotic

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Stella

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Stone slab used to carve hieroglyphics

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How did the cartouche get its name?

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Named by Napoleon’s soldiers bc it looked like ammunition carteridge In their weapons

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What other materials are made from papyrus reeds

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Boats, sandals, rope, baskets

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How did Egyptians envision the afterlife?

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Like everyday life

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Ritual done before burial used to awaken senses In the afterlife

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Opening of the mouth ritual

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Longest raining Pharoah

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Ramses II-66 years

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14
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What is natron

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Desert salt used to mummify

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How did geography influence their spiritual beliefs?

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Living next to the desert made them more aware of their mortality

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Why did they mummify the body?

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They thought they needed it in the afterlife

17
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Egyptian creation belief

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Life rose from a primeval ocean

18
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Pyramid symbolizes…

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Resurrection

19
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Amulets were used for…

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Protection

20
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Who’s tomb was the only one found intact in the valley of the kings

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King tut

21
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Ushtubtes

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Clay figures placed in tombs as a symbolic worker of mundane tasks

22
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What was buried with the dead

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Everything you need in daily life

23
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Who were the only Egyptians thought to read?

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Scribes, doctors, viziers

24
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Did Egyptians use currency?

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No, barter system

25
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Who is Osiris?

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Ruler of underworld

26
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There art style stayed the same for ____ years

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3000

27
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5 characteristics do painting human figures

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Rigid stylized figure
Torso facing forward
Limbs and head in profile
Elongated forehead and limbs
5 exaggerated and forward facing
28
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Symbol for life/ eternal existence

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Ankh

29
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symbol for ability to see the seen and unseen

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eye of ra

30
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Maat

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Goddess of truth

31
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Symbol for royalty

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crook and flail

32
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Egyptian word for soul

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Ka

33
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God of death with head of jackal

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Anubis

34
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God of creation

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Ra

35
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How do you gain social status?

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Born into it, or training

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