Ancient Egypt

Question 0

Vessels that store the vital organs after mummification

Answer 0

Canopic jars

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Book of the dead

Question 2

How long did it take to mummify a corpse

Answer 2

70 days

Question 3

Where was the pharaoh buried

Answer 3

Valley if the kings

Question 4

First recorded examples of hieroglyphs date back……… Years

Answer 4

5000 years

Question 5

What discovery in 1799 finally enabled us to translate Egyptian heiroglps

Answer 5

The Rosetta Stone

Question 6

Who developed the translations on the Rosetta Stone

Answer 6

Jean Champollion

Question 7

What are the three languages were written on the Rosetta Stone

Answer 7

Greek, Egyptian, demotic

Question 8

What is Stella

Answer 8

A stone slab used to carve hieroglyph on before the invention of papyrus

Question 9

How did the cartouche get it’s name

Answer 9

Named by Napoleons soldiers because it looked like the ammunition cartridge in their wepons

Question 10

What are materials are made from papers reeds

Answer 10

Boats sandles ropes baskets

Question 11

How did the Egyptians envision the afterlife

Answer 11

Like everyday life

Question 12

Ritual done before burial used to awaken the senses in the afterlife

Answer 12

Opening of the mouth rituall

Question 13

Who was the longest reigning pharaoh

Answer 13

Ramses the 2- 66 years

Question 14

What is natron

Answer 14

Desert salt used to mummify

Question 15

How did the geography influence their spiritual beliefs

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Why did they mummify the body

Answer 16

Believed they needed their body in the afterlife

Question 17

Egyptian creation belief

Answer 17

Life rose from primal ocean

Question 18

The pyramid symbolizes

Answer 18

Resurrection

Question 19

What were amulets used for

Answer 19

Protection

Question 20

Whose tomb was the only one found still intact in the valleys of the kings

Answer 20

King tut

Question 21

What is ushubtes

Answer 21

Clay figures placed in tombs to symbolize worker of mundane take

Question 22

Social pyramid

Answer 22

Know it

Question 23

What was buried with the dead

Answer 23

Everything you needed in daily life: food clothing animals servants

Question 24

Who were the Egyptians taught to read

Answer 24

Scribes doctors viziers

Question 25

Did Egyptians use currency

Answer 25

No barter system

Question 26

Who is Osiris

Answer 26

Ruler of the underworld

Question 27

Their art style stayed the same for …… Years

Answer 27

3000

Question 28

What were the 5 main characters of painting humans

Answer 28

Rigid stylized fingers
Torso forward facing 
Limbs and head in profile
Elongated forehead and limbs
Eye exaggerated and forward facing

Question 29

Symbol for life

Answer 29

Ankh

Question 30

Symbol for the spiritual ability to perceive and interpret both seen and unseen in the universe

Answer 30

Eye of Ra

Question 31

Who is the goddess of Truth-judges weather or not you are allowed into the afterlife

Answer 31

Maat

Question 32

Symbol that represents Royality

Answer 32

Crook and Flail

Question 33

Egyptian word for soul

Answer 33

Ka

Question 34

Cat god of protection

Answer 34

Bast

Question 35

Egyptian god of death with the head of a jackel

Answer 35

Anubis

Question 36

Egyptian god of creation

Answer 36

Ra

Question 37

How could your gain social status

Answer 37

Born into it, or sometimes buy training

Question 38

Longest river

Answer 38

Nile

Question 39

2 lands

Answer 39

Black and red

Question 40

What percentage of Egypt is desert

Answer 40

90%