Ancient Egypt

Question 0

Vessels that store the vital organs after

Mummification

Answer 0

Canopic jars

Question 1

Document 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 were the pharaoh buried

Answer 3

Valley of 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 heirglphics

Answer 5

The rosetta stone

Question 6

Who deciphered the translations on the rosetta stone

Answer 6

Jean Champollion

Question 7

What three languages were written on the Rosetta stone

Answer 7

Greek, Egyptian, Demotic

Question 8

What is a stella?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

How did the Cartouche get it name?

Answer 9

named by Napoleons soldiers because it looked like the ammunition cartridge in their weapons

Question 10

What other materials are made from

Papyrus reeds?

Answer 10

Boats, sandels, rope, baskets

Question 11

How did 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” Ritual

Question 13

Who was the longest reigning Pharaoh?

Answer 13

Ramses II-66yrs

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 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 a primeval 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 intact In the Valley of the kings?

Answer 20

King Tut

Question 21

What is an Ushubtes?

Answer 21

Clay figures placed in the tombs to As symbolic worker of mundane tasks

Question 22

What was buried with the dead ?

Answer 22

everything you needed in daily life:

Food, clothing animals, servents

Question 23

Who were the only Egyptians taught

To read?

Answer 23

scribes, doctors, viziers

Question 24

Did Egyptians use currency?

Answer 24

No, barter system

Question 25

Who is Osiris?

Answer 25

Ruler of the underworld

Question 26

Their art style stayed the same for _________years.

Answer 26

3000 yrs

Question 27

What are the 5 main characteristics of

Painting human figures?

Answer 27

rigid stylized figure 
Torso forward facing
	Limbs and head in profile
	Elongated forehead and limbs
	Eye exaggerated and forward facing

Question 28

Symbol for life/eternTorso forward facing

Answer 28

Limbs and head in profile
Elongated forehead and limbs
Eye exaggerated and forwal existence Ankh

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Eye of Ra

Question 30

Who is the goddess of Truth-judges wether you

Answer 30

Maat

Question 31

Are allowed into the afterlife

Symbol that represents Royality

Answer 31

Crook and Flail

Question 32

Egyptian word for soul

Answer 32

Ka

Question 33

Cat god of protection

Answer 33

Bast

Question 34

Egyptian god of death with head of a jackel

Answer 34

Anubis

Question 35

Egyptian god of Creation

Answer 35

Ra

Question 36

How could you gain social status?

Answer 36

Born into it, or sometimes could buy

Training

Question 37

Longest river?

Answer 37

Nile river?

Question 38

What are the two parts if Egypt?

Answer 38

Black and red

Question 39

What is the land of Egypt mostly?

Answer 39

90% of Egypt is deserts