Ancient Egypt Terms

Question 0

Canopic jars

Answer 0

Vessels that store the vital organs after mummification

Question 1

Book of the Dead

Answer 1

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

Question 2

70 days

Answer 2

How long it took to mummify a corpse

Question 3

Where the Pharaoh was 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 hieroglyphs

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, and demotic

Question 8

What is a Stella

Answer 8

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

Question 9

How did cartouche get it’s 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, sandals, rope, 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 ritual

Question 13

Who was the longest reigning Pharaoh

Answer 13

Ramses II 66 years

Question 14

What is Natron

Answer 14

Desert salt used to mummify

Question 15

How did the geography influence the 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

Flay figures placed in the tombs to symbolize worker of mundane tasks

Question 22

Social pyramid

Answer 22

Know it—-

Question 23

What was buried with the dead

Answer 23

Everything you needed in daily life

Question 24

Who were the only Egyptians taught to read

Answer 24

Scribes, doctors, viziers

Question 25

Did Egyptians use currency

Answer 25

No, barter systems

Question 26

Who is Osiris

Answer 26

Ruler of the underworld

Question 27

Their art style stayed the same for ____ years

Answer 27

3000 years

Question 28

What were the 5 main characteristic of painting human figures

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Symbol for life/ eternal existence

Answer 29

Ankh

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Eye of Ra

Question 31

Who is the goddess of truth- judges wether you are allowed into the afterlife

Answer 31

Maat

Question 32

Symbol that represents royalty

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 head of jackel

Answer 35

Anubis

Question 36

Egyptian god of creation

Answer 36

Ra

Question 37

How could you gain social status

Answer 37

Born into it or sometimes could buy training

Question 38

3 facts on Egypt architecture

Answer 38

Egyptian pyramids are one of the most architectural achievements in the world

Stone and sun dried bricks were usually used for building material

the pyramids of Egypt used 2,300,000 stones